Radio Gonzo

I have been a musician for just about the same length of time I have wanted to be a music journalist and I formed my first band in the spring of 1975. My secretary Andrea, who is a cheeky young flibbertigibbet, who really doesn't know her place in the potato shed and (just in case you think I am being disloyal to her) is typing this as I dictate, sniggered when I mentioned the spring of 1975 because that, apparently, was when she was born. You can't get the staff anymore, and she steadfastly refuses to behave in the subservient manner that I would wish, and leads me a terrible life. I am now completely confused and have no idea where I was going with this due to dear Andrea's girlish sarcasm, so I think I am going to have to start again. In the spring of 1975 (shut up Andrea) I formed my first band, and wrote what I thought were terribly witty satirical songs about the then current political scene. With hindsight they were terrible, but what songs by a fifteen year old boy aren't? Over the years my mu