Spent the mid 60's to mid 70's as a roadie with numerous bands including four years with Mott the Hoople and a year with Queen. After coming of the road in '76 worked selling antiques and junk at various markets then in'82 opened a shop in
London named it 'Risky Business' specializing in vintage luggage sporting goods and items for shop decor and now do much the same from a warehouse in Hastings.