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Robert Courtney; Composer and Solo Singer / Guitarist; also Composer, Singer / Guitarist and founder member of Cycle Annie, Skin Patrol, One Million Fuzztone Guitars, Doll, Liberty Cushion and The Sunatarot Group. Born in the UK, early childhood in Jamaica and Guernsey, school in Wallingford, Art School in Banbury, college in Nottingham, worked in London, New York, Paris and China, currently living in London. Early influences "My Boy Lollipop" by Millie Small, "Bachelor Boy" by Cliff Richard and "Telstar" by The Tornados. Despite an early love of pop music, a non-musician who preferred the sounds and feel of Formula One and Formula 5000 cars (as a very young spectator) until he heard "Silver Machine" by Hawkwind, followed by seeing them live at The New Theatre, Oxford. Given the chance to combine and replicate these two experiences at a friend's house with a Zenta Telecaster "copy", a Wem Copycat, Coloursound Fuzzbox, Selmer ...