I was the youngest of three children, and when I was about eight or nine years old my elder sister got a boyfriend who was into rock, and he brought Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath into the house, and it changed my world completely really. My brother and sister started accumulating vinyl, so I had access to this amazing music… Something hit me; I just knew I was going to have something to do with it [rock music].
When I was eleven, I’d saved up pocket money and I bought my first album, which was Led Zeppelin IV, and I just played it to death. The next album I got was Back In Black by AC/DC, and then Free At Last, then the first Black Sabbath album…