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  • The Big Issue

    Ricky Ross

    Jun 28, 2021 5 minutes
    Deacon Blue frontman

    At 16 I was still very much in the evangelical church world that my parents had brought me up in. Rock’n’roll was increasingly dominating my thoughts. I didn’t do well at school, and I didn’t enjoy it. I had no idea what ‘my thing’ was going to be – at school my thing was just looking out of windows and dreaming. My classroom was very high up so I could see the whole of Fife. So I spent my time drawing things on the back of my jotters and looking out at Fife and dreaming about when I could leave school. I think that thing about constantly dreaming – that’s why you become a songwriter. Because you dream up stories. It was of no use to me at the time, but eventually it came in quite handy.

    I just look back and think,

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