George Palmer

And they eventually bought one.

And I started to buy the records of the music that I wanted to hear.

And I would buy these little 45 RPM singles, which you had back then, which cost...

less than probably a dollar, you know.

And I would listen to that constantly.

And I started to build up a record collection, which became quite actually substantial and large.

And I would listen to that constantly.

Again, to the annoyance of my parents, oh, for goodness sake, we've had enough of Wagner World.

Yeah, well, look, as soon as I started to learn the piano and learned musical notation...

I really wanted to start creating some of this myself.

You know, if Beethoven can do it, why can't I do it?

Well, a very good reason, but I didn't appreciate that at the time.

So from a very early stage, when I started to learn piano, I was beginning to scribble down little tunes, make up little pieces and so on.

And it was just a very natural thing for me to do.

And I would sit at the piano also improvising.

So...

It was always in my head, always in my head.

Yes, I did.

I did.

I felt that this was right for me.