GAVIN TURK
“Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon has always seemed to be in my life, I’m not sure how or why. I remember being about six years old and hearing it at home… but my mum and dad weren’t massively progressive music-minded. Dad played this loud, mad jazz, Mum liked things like ABBA and Helen Reddy.
seemed like it was in everyone’s home then, like everyone had a copy of Stephen Hawking’s , but maybe they didn’t read it, or understand it properly. The same goes for , everyone seemed to have a copy, but who was listening or understanding it? Anyway, one on the record player myself and properly listened. And then it was like, ‘Oh, wow.’ It was a crazy soundscape and very different to what I was listening to at the time, more pop music and ska, which was what was in the charts. We lived in south-west London, which seemed close to everything, but I sort of kept to myself at the time and when I did go out, Camden Lock was the place that attracted me. Camden was the centre for youth culture then, a world away from the suburbs.
