Out of the Camp
Out of the Camp Ch. 1 – The Leaving
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Ch. 1 The Leaving I arrived in London in May 1967, one month after my...
Out of the Camp Ch. 2 – Navigating London
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Then I got mobile. In the few months that I’d lived there, my geographical knowledge...
Out of the Camp Ch. 3 – Press Pass
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At around the same time, I spent an hour with Gene Pitney and his wife,...
Out of the Camp Ch. 4 – Brondesbury Park
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Returning to the London Academy of Modelling for a moment, I forgot to attach a...
Out of the Camp Ch. 5 – Rare Amber
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While I was doing all of this I was answering ‘wanted ads’ in the ‘Melody...
Out of the Camp Ch.6 – The Roofs of the Rich
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Having left Victoria Wine to go to Germany at the start of what I thought...
Out of the Camp Ch. 7 – Rubber Duck
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I hadn’t of course forgotten about music while running all over London risking my neck...
Out of the Camp Ch. 8 – Listen
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By the time I auditioned for the group, ‘Listen’, I was living in a bedsit...