Late one night, back in the mid sixties, I saw a TV programme and it caught my attention. A woman was singing and there was something about the song that really tugged at me. I had never heard this type of music before, or seen singers like the three that this programme featured. [...]

I was 15 and about to leave school and step out into the big wide world. It was usual for your mother or father to come to the school and meet with your ‘form’ teacher to discuss a job for you.
It was 1961 and very few people stayed on at school to take GCE’s, as [...]