1957

This is me aged 12 in our living room. I’d been plaguing my parents for a guitar since getting into rock’n’roll. My dad was a window cleaner and used to sing in Walsall’s working men’s clubs and he’d drag me up on stage from the age of seven. I used to nod a lot when asked a question in school – and a boy called me Noddy. I’ve been called that ever since, but my family use my real name, Neville.