The line 'Compose a revolutionary symphony/Then went to bed with a charming young thing' is about The Clash. They gave me a broadly socialist viewpoint and made me reappraise everything. Led Zeppelin would never have reformed if he or Jimmy Page were bald.Ĭoming from such an uneducated background, I suppose I'd had quite a blinkered working-class upbringing, and reading books like George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and Robert Tressell's The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropist had opened up my mind - seeing how the system works and how people are kept down. I was talking to Robert Plant about this and he said the secret to his success was keeping his hair. If I'd lost my hair, it would've been awful. Thatcher ( Margaret Thatcher) got into power in 1979, and from the Falklands war onwards, that was her wielding her power, the trade unions were being worn down, we had the miners strike, there was mass unemployment, there were all these issues, you had to care and if you didn't you had your head in the sand or didn't give a fuck about anyone but yourself.

In The Jam I didn't want to be a part of any movement. I wasn't waving the Labour party flag but the socialist red flag that's for sure. I think the record is great and it deserves a lot more recognition than it's got. I borrowed the LP off a mate and kept hold of it as long as I could. Hearing Down By The Jetty for the first time, at the age of 17, was just what I wanted. The Feelgoods cut right through all that.

There were all those faded-denim, post-prog stadium bands, and the US rock thing. Post-Bolan and Bowie, Britain was a real wasteland, musically. It's some legacy.įor me, Wilko was the first guitar hero of the Seventies. And there are a lot of people who'll say the same. Wilko may not be as famous as some other guitarists, but he's right up there. If I had a time machine, maybe I might go back to 1964 to the Flamingo and see Stevie Wonder, but I wouldn't want to stay there. For all of my love of the '60s, be it clothes or music, I still wouldn't want to be living in any other time but now. Whatever gripes I've had about Bowie in the past, Low's been a constant since I bought it in 1977. Low's one of my favourite records anyway. Every night we'd drive home to London after recording and have Ziggy Stardust on five or six times. The next time he sees me I'll have a fucking great Aladdin Sane flash on me boat race.

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