RETIRED FROM DSS-PRIOR TO TOTTENHAM TEC' I USED TO GO TO ELDON ROAD SCHOOL-CLASSMATES INCLUDED GEOFFREY LANGRIDGE-ARTHUR FEARN-MICHAEL HIGGINS-DAVID BENJAMIN-PAT FRANKLIN- WALLY GIBBS-VALERIE MACKIE-RUBY MATHERS-VICTOR SMITH-TONY MILLARD-CARL MOREY HEADMASTER WAS MR HARVEY-CLASSMATES AT TOTTENHAM TEC.INCLUDED-RAY BASTIN-BOB BEER-DAVID PAYNE-MARTIN CORDELL-JOHN PENNY- I USED TO BE A MEMBER OF THE GROUP- "MEMPHIS LEATHER" WHICH BECAME "THE GOOD EARTH BAND" WITH WHOM I RECORDED AN ALBUM WITH ON THE SAGA LABEL WHICH THEN REFORMED INTO "MUNGO JERRY"-[I WAS NO LONGER A MEMBER BY THE TIME IT BECAME "MUNGO JERRY" THOUGH] OTHER CLAIMS TO FAME ONCE FAILED AUDITION WITH THE KINKS DUE TO MY LACK OF EXPERIENCE AT THAT TIME-[KINKS WERE THEN UNKNOWN] AS WELL AS THIS I ALSO STOOD IN WITH AN UNKNOWN ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINK-WHILST HIS REGULAR DRUMMER WAS AWAY- ALSO DURING THE WAR YEARS MY FATHER WAS THE PIANIST WITH NAT GONELLA- MY AUNT WAS A SINGER-SHE WAS MY FATHERS YOUNGER SISTER-AND WAS ONCE MARRIED TO