Music ( Should be a more imaginative title than that!)

One of my main passions in life is the music I have been listening to for as long as i can remember. I was introduced to two very different musical tastes through my parents as a toddler. My dad would be listening to bands such as Pink Floyd, Genesis, Supertramp, Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin, while my mother prefered Michael Jackson and other Motown artists, The Jam, Simon and Garfunkel, Kate Bush and T-Rex. Listening to these diverse artists and to the brilliance of Britpop as a small child, shaped my enthusiasm for music as an art form, and inspired me to write my own songs as i found my own musical heroes as i hurtled through my teens.

Its hard to say which moment in my own history got me hooked. I have a excellent long term memory and distinctly remember watching Guns N Roses performing at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992. I know that sounds stupid considering that I was only 3 at the time, but it's weird how that has stuck. The first record i ever brought was Parklife by Blur from my 5th brithday money and I had an unhealthy obsession for Queen around the age of 10. I must have been the only eleven year old sitting on my school bus listening to The Who's 'Who's Better Who's Best!' Maybe its all four of these reasons rolled into one?

Perhaps one of the most inspirational moments for me was being a student in Cambridge around the time that former Pink Floyd genius Syd Barrett died. He had cut an enigmatic figure since he turned his back on the limelight in the early seventies, and as an impressionable 17 year old i revelled in hanging out in places where he would have once been, and listening to the first Pink Floyd album thinking it was one of the best things I have ever heard. 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn', was definetly one of the reasons I began writing songs and poems.

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