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Alvin Lee

"I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records."

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Donna Grant

"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."

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Donna Grant

"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."

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Donna Grant

"Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing."

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Donna Grant

"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."

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Donna Grant

"My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager."

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Donna Grant

"To every little girl, her father is a hero. My father actually is one."

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Donna Grant

"It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different."

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Donna Grant

"When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing."

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Donna Grant

"I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad."

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Donna Grant

"The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive."

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Alvin Lee
"George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy."

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Alvin Lee
"We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised."

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Alvin Lee
"I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill."

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Alvin Lee
"I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist."

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Alvin Lee
"I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records."

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Alvin Lee
"The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird."

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Alvin Lee
"They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work."

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Alvin Lee
"I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig."

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Alvin Lee
"Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it."

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Alvin Lee
"It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up."

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