We also got The Comic Strip Presents … with that guy who did that song about that car. Even today, 30 or 40 years later, I’ll see Vyv or Neil in something and think: “It’s Vyv!” or: “It’s Neil!” I can still quote the lines. I’d watch it with my family or school friends and record it on our VCRs so that we could memorise the lines. It would just flip from one thing to another. I loved how they smack each other around. I loved that they share this house, but are all so different. Then The Young Ones came on and just blew me away. I was used to watching Emmerdale Farm and Yes Minister.
PINK FLOYD POSTER TV
I arrived in England in the early 80s when there were still only three TV channels. Totally out of the box … Christopher Ryan, Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer in The Young Ones. I just didn’t have the confidence to blossom and so turned to acting instead. I was a decent songwriter, but my shyness and embarrassment eventually got the better of me. I wanted to be a songwriter throughout all my teenage years, so all I did during my time in England was try to write songs and play guitar all day long. Gilmour, Slash and Van Halen are my guitar heroes. He is speaking to you and complements Axl Rose with such humility. His guitar playing in Guns N’ Roses is beyond riffs. I was transfixed by how David Gilmour matches his guitar playing to Roger Waters’ vocals. I recorded Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii from TV on to VCR and would watch it over and over. Only a couple of guys take the guitar to another level. They got me through girls and the rejection of my awkward teenage years. ‘Slash is speaking to you and complements Axl Rose with such humility’ … Guns N’ Roses in 1991. My parents eventually moved to Israel, Stockholm and Munich and I moved to New York to become an actor. Then we moved to Hawaii, France and Switzerland. I don’t even know if I’ve actually graduated high school. So I did my school from correspondence and my mom was my teacher. I went to school for one day and said: no way. Plus, the house that we lived in was rented out by Eric Clapton’s mother.Īfter London, we moved to Sydney. So I got all my Def Leppard vinyl signed, which was a big deal. We had a piano at our house in Walton and our piano tuner knew Def Leppard, because he tuned their pianos. My first ever concert was Foreigner, supported by the American rock band Gamma, at Wembley in 1982.
I was more into hard rock, so I went to see Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. It was the 80s, but I didn’t jump on the bandwagon of Culture Club and Duran Duran. I would go into London to see theatre at the Hippodrome and I went to every concert I possibly could. That’s where I met my first girlfriend, this lovely Iranian girl called Maisoon, and thought: “Hey! This is all working out.” British rock and heavy metal I had seven singing solos and I loved it. I was on my way to rugby practice, aged 14, and there was a flyer on a post: “Auditioning for You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.” I’d never acted, but thought: “I’ll try out for that.” I was the only one who tried out for Charlie Brown – it was a small school – and I got the main part. I went to the American community school in Cobham, Surrey. I said to my older brother: “We’re the luckiest guys in the world.” But before long I was skiing in Switzerland, playing sports around Europe and going into London every weekend. We’re moving to England.” So we moved to Ripley, near Walton-on-Thames. One day, I came home from scout camp and he said: “Family meeting in the living room.
My dad worked for a computer company, but wanted to see the world. I was living the California dream in Cupertino: surfing, girls.
Loving it … the album cover for the original cast recording of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
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