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"My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that."
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"The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane."
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"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
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"I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living."
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"The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins."
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"My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day."
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"My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons."
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"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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"My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense."
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"My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now."
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"It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass."
Time
"I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics."
Time
"So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now."
Now
"It wasn't until the movie came out that it all changed for us. Some people say it was the start of Ten Years After, but in another way, it was the beginning of the end."
People
"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."
People
"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."
Now
"There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life."
Age
"I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig."
Guitar
"I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school."
Guitar
"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."
Christian
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