I GREW UP IN WHAT I THINK NOW WAS PROBABLY A HIGHLY UNUSUAL HOUSEHOLD just off the King’s Road in the 1970s. My dad is American and he had lots of counter-cultural friends. I remember Benjamin Zephaniah turning up for a dub poetry reading and my mother insisting that the strange smelling fumes coming from the living room were legal. I did believe her then but I don’t believe her now!
CHELSEA IN THE 1970S WAS FULL OF ADVENTURE. Our neighbours were Bianca Jagger and John Paul Getty II, who had a red phone box installed in his house as he was sick of people turning up to make long distance calls on his account!
I remember looking for a lion with a friend of mine. It was rumoured to be roaming in