George Palmer

I have three kids.

So there wasn't much time to indulge in my secret passion.

But what time I did get for that, I used to sit at the piano, scribble down whatever I was writing and shove the music in the bottom drawer, thinking, well, that's never going to be seen or heard by anybody.

No.

I never, honestly, never thought that it would ever come to light.

I didn't plan for it.

I was not within the musical milieu.

So it was something that took me outside the law.

It was an escape from the law.

For example, you know, I'd go in on the train in the morning and I wouldn't be reading my notes for the cases.

I've done that preparation already.

I would be reading scores or books on orchestration or composition or whatever I was reading.

That would be music and ditto on the way home.

work was for the workplace and outside the workplace, when I had some spare time, it was music.

And I think moving between those two very, very different worlds helped me keep some sort of balance and sanity, I've got to say.

So there's a lot of life that happens outside the courtroom, which is a surprise to some lawyers, I have to say.

Yes.

I kept on banging the speaker on my right-hand side saying, what's wrong with the wretched thing?

I took the car in to be serviced.

I said, look, that speaker is not working.