I wasn't allowed in the school choir as the music master at Oxted School, one Mr Oram, told me that singing with my family wasn't singing and if I didn't sing in either the primary school choir or the church choir I was not singing. That was my first week at grammar school. A couple of weeks later he heard me singing in the playground and wanted to know why I wasn't in the school choir. I took great joy in telling him he had told me I couldn't sing and when he insisted I join the school choir I took even more delight in saying no!! OK so I was bolshie then as well!!! I do remember them singing Old Abram Brown is Dead and Gone, though. They also did loads of Gilbert and Sullivan and Blow the Wind Southerly.