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Article: ear buzz - One Giant Step to musical hero; I hit my teenage years in a storm of sebum, and my heroes thinned down to the purely musical.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- August 20, 2004
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Byline: with Adam Walton
I HAD plenty of heroes when I was a kid; but, other than my dad (obviously -- not just because I know he's reading this!); Kenny Dalglish; my Alun School, Mold English teacher, Miss Banks (R. I. P. ); Dr.
Woolley, curator of the Natural History Museum's mineral collection, and square-as-a-Rubik-cube-factory classical guitarist, John Williams, most of my heroes were fictional: the Hardy Boys, a couple of Bagginses, or the Cyclops from the Warlock of Firetop Mountain. Hmmm then there was Matthew Smith, idiosyncratic teenage genius behind the computer games Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy, but I'm not covering myself in kudos here, ...