Bella Freud

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, that's so good.

Yeah.

God, it's such a good bit of information, actually.

You have exquisite manners.

And I read that when you first met the DJ Jeremy Healy, his name for you was Lady Penelope because everyone thought you were posh.

And she had a huge influence on me, Lady Penelope, and I wondered if she had one on you.

Yeah, the back pages of Melody Maker were great for ordering.

I mean, we never even had any pocket.

I just never seemed to have anything.

But I did manage to buy a scoop neck T-shirt with mirrors embroidered all over from one of those back pages and spent a lot of time looking at those adverts with little illustrations of flared trousers and stuff.

Oh, they were so good.

Totally.

Chelsea Girl or stuff.

Yeah.

um I discovered Bob Marley that was a huge thing for me and the words I felt that they described my stance in life you know get up stand up I just thought yes I remember carving that into my desk at school and um

But then my mother had good records.

She had Nina Simone and Leonard Cohen.

But my first own music was really David Bowie, The Stones, and then Bob Marley.