PETE PAPHIDES
Pete Paphides is a music journalist, record collector and broadcaster. Catch him on Soho Radio every Tuesday, 12-2pm
My mother is not to blame at all. Faced withall the evidence before her, she was entirely right to conclude that records would be the ruin of me. By the end of 1985, I’d managed to fail almost all my O-levels. Despite my protestations, it turned out it really is hard to retain information about the industrial revolution, quadratic equations and Romeo And Juliet while repeatedly listening to Primitive Painters by Felt.