George Palmer
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And that was my introduction to learning the piano.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
I never had to be forced to practise the piano.
I had, in fact, to be dragged away from the piano.
Go outside and play and kick a football or get out of the way.
Stop making that racket.
That was more the order of the day.
1955 or 56, I think, rock and roll burst on the scene.
Bill Haley and the Commons, I remember.
Rock Around the Clock, I remember it vividly.
Look, I enjoyed that music, but I didn't want to play it.
And what I was constantly hearing in my head was classical music.
And that's where my natural instincts lay.
And what consolidated that and entrenched that deeply for me was when I finally persuaded my parents to buy a record player.
We didn't have...
music in the phone.
We had the radio, of course, when you had the usual pop songs coming on the radio, but I wanted more.
And so I went to work on my parents to buy a record player, like I'd worked on them for the piano.