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1980: There wasn’t much money back then, everyone told me „Things will be different when you’re older.“, guess I’m not old enough yet, but that lead to me buying a cheapo classical guitar for about 12 pounds from a mate when I was about 15. It had a crack, the strings were about ten...

So what happened next?
Well, I was working for the government in London, after dropping out of a very boring Quantity Surveying course after 2 years. I used to go around to the social flats and houses after they complained something was broken. Not simple things like toilet seats, but more...

"Oh Jesus, she blew me and has probably got AIDS because she was living from playing the recorder in Spain and she can't play the recorder!!!"
Roland said one morning.
I said, "Well, don't worry Roland, you wont get it from that, you can only get it from doing her."

Venice isn't that far from Salzburg, about 6 hours drive with a normal car - about 43 ½ with a beetle.
It was a friday afternoon, it was good to get out of town, and I'd never been to Italy. It was late October '87, and as I’ve said in previous episodes, the weather was strangely warm,...

It was early November '87, getting a bit colder now, I was sitting on a bench under the arches in Salzburg, playing a tune when a woman turned up on her bike and stopped to listen. There were only about 10 people listening, and she caught my eye, I thought: "Hey, Baby."