When I wsa 17 and well into Dr Feelgood, Wilko, Eddie and the Hotrods pub rock R&B, and proto punk, I hated Led Zep, Purple, and Sabbath, and had this immense ex grammar schoolboy sense of superiotity, writing their fans off as a mass of boneheads... From my 30s onwards I started really getting into music I used to revile in my teens... .. including fat Vegas Elvis... From the moment I met my Welsh mrs in 1982, I had to start adjusting to her people's worship of Tom Jones... One of my biggest disapointments was I was employed to work on his big late 80s comeback gig at the Hammersmith Odeon, but couldn't make it in due to the transport strike...
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