‘The piano part was recorded in the hallway of our basement flat, singing really quietly so as not to wake the family upstairs’
I had been in various bands, one called Ruth and the 45s, the sort of acts that got to No 52 and then got dropped by the record company. I’d managed to buy some studio equipment but by the time I reached the age of 30 I was living hand-to-mouth. My wife Kim’s acting work in a TV series kept us going but we were always worried about money.
