A teacher at my secondary school. We used to write and sing songs about him. Sorry, Sir! You were a great teacher.
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To my younger self. I was incredibly self-loathing and self-doubting, and I’m still undoing that damage 30 years later.
To people who I’ve made a really quick joke about on stage and hurt.
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I am not a great crier.
A 1956 Selmer silver alto saxophone.
As someone who did his best.
When I lived with my grandmother in Trinidad, before I came to England to live with my mother in Newcastle at the age of seven.
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