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Artists:Pete Atkin
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1945
22 August - born, Cambridge (UK)
1952-6
Romsey County Primary School, Cambridge
1953
Started school violin lessons - continued lessons with local teacher until 1961 - Grade VII
1956-63
Perse School for Boys, Cambridge.
My first encounters with the piano were picking out tunes (like the theme music to "The Grove Family") at my grandmother's where there was also an interesting selection of thirties song copies and albums (my mum had played as a teenager). Having learned to read music for the violin, I began laboriously to work out piano parts, and then, having discovered the principle of chords from friends with guitars, worked out the short cut of vamping chords in the left hand against the tune in the right hand.
1959
Formed a church youth club 'beat group' - The Chevrons (name of no significance whatever other than that it sounded like a group name) with two friends who played guitar (one of whom was in the year below me at school, in the same class as Dave Gilmour, and ended up as a A&R man at Polydor for a while), plus another friend who made a bass, and a drummer recruited from a friend's school, playing mostly instrumentals - Ventures, Shadows, Hunters - plus a few Everly Brothers vocals (speciality the Allisons' Eurovision near-triumph Are You Sure?) - with me thrashing away mostly vainly trying to be heard via a 'piano pickup' which looked like a wooden pencil box jammed down the back of the piano and plugged into the single amp everything else was plugged into.
1963
2 Bs and a D in 'A' levels in Latin, Greek and Ancient History - stayed on an extra term to do some actual work and take Camb. Univ. Exam at Christmas.
1964
Summer term - "taught" English and Latin at Stancliffe Hall Prep School, Darley Dale, Derbyshire.
1964-8
St John's College, Cambridge - first two years studying Classics, second two years English.
1964
Bought a cheap Czechoslovakian classical guitar (Tatra?) mainly because there was no regular access to a piano and because having played the violin, having busked the piano, knowing the elements at least in theory from playing in the group, and being able to read music, it wasn't too difficult to pick up.
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