David Morrissey

The Beatles at that time were slightly uncool.

But knowing that they'd walked down the very streets that you were walking down and they'd achieved world fame, it did give this kudos to the city and you as a member of the city and then the football on top of that.

No, not at all.

I got good friends at school.

I was head boy at my school, which was weird.

But it was a secondary modern.

They didn't do any drama, so I had to go and find the drama myself.

It was very much like the school in Kez.

It was chaotic.

You were not encouraged as a young lad in my school to put your hand up and answer a question in the class.

That would guarantee you'd get your head kicked in in the schoolyard afterwards.

It was quite oppressive.

I made good friends there.

I really did and have them today.

But I did feel cheated out of that.

Because I think you were quite intentional about it, weren't you?

And that troubled me.

It really upset me.

I identified with him, his character, his situation.

And that sort of thing that bubbled up inside me, I wanted to find out how to control that or understand it.