About him

Northern Radio record shop on Fountains Rd

My Liverpool was what was left twenty years after the war. I played with Spitfires and Hurricanes on the roof of an air raid shelter in our back yard in Kirkdale. None of us had gardens, none of us had lawns, you could see the stars at night, and flowers were kept in a vase in the parlour.


There were lots of trees in Stanley Park where there was also a boating lake complete with ducks and the occasional father and son playing with model sailboats. If you're planning on doing any site seeing in the area, don't look for the street, it isn't there anymore!


I bought my first records at a shop called Northern Radio - The Beatles 'LPs' Help and Revolver, and the singles Help and Day Tripper after my dad bought a 'Radiogram' (Radio and Gramophone console) there. He brought it home and said "All we need now is some Doris Day records!"

1968 acoustic by JV Bourdon of London

My mother bought me an acoustic guitar in 1968 for 15 shillings and I had a plastic Beatles one before that. At first, I thought you held the notes down with your thumb! Real guitars came later.


My dad used to take me for walks through the Docks to see the ships and to Speke Airport (now John Lennon airport) to see the planes. I've watched a Spitfire and a Hurricane chase an Me109 over Biggin Hill at an airshow and been a few hundred feet below an Avro Vulcan and Avro Lancaster as they flew over my street!


The Daleks were real... VERY real! Even in black and white.. daleks were absolutely terrifying and we convinced ourselves that is was only a matter of time before they appeared in our street! When they did appear, they were little and made of plastic. Only the battery operated ones you got for Christmas could talk!


Thunderbirds were go and I constantly stood by for action with Stingray!


Almost all the adults and teachers I knew as a child had fought in World War 2 or had endured the day and night bombing of their homes in Liverpool. The granddads of the day had fought in World War 1.


At school, I fancied Elaine Kelly, Pauline Kelly, and Jean Dent like mad! Only Pauline could climb and jump off high walls though!


I subscribe to the belief that the baby Brian grew up to do more sensible things in thirty three years than the rest of us have done in two thousand.


I subscribe to the belief that museums and galleries matter much more than many people realize and that they are the caretakers of our history and heritage.


I am a very strong supporter of the arts in Liverpool. If I could, I'd pay for Liverpool's inner city school kids to go to plays, exhibitions, and concert performances every three months by the bus load!


I am interested in working with independent film makers because they are, without a doubt, pioneers of the first division.


I am an advocate for super-friends... the ones who know you'd be there for them like a shot and not just because they'd do the same for you. Super-friends are there to be loved and appreciated for life.. it's the ultimate bond thing.

I absolutely will not eat things that think or dream.


There is a God.