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Welcome to my page. I hope you'll find something of interest between my musical career (which is still ongoing), and my new career of painting in mixed media. I was born in Aylesbury Bucks. - so long ago that it had to be in black & white - before they had colour. My father was at RAF Halton near Tring, though both my parents came from London. Most people take my name as being of foreign origin, but I have traced my family-tree back to the 1500's & it comes from Suffolk (where I live now!). It's an old Suffolk word for a Yew tree ( probably from the French e.g. Chateau d'If- in English, is the Chateau of the Yew trees), so I reckon that makes me pretty well English. (Not Dutch- as Deep Purple thought I was when they covered 'Hush') We returned to London when my parents marriage broke up, and I attended St. Clement Danes Grammer School in Acton. At school, I formed a skiffle group called the Gravediggers. When I left school I started the Vikings with John Howell &...