“In the early 1970s, I got a milling machine apprenticeship at Vauxhall in Luton. My dad was a pattern maker at the factory. He worked every day of his life there and my brother worked there, too. I remember the pamphlets on all the new models arriving home.”

English musician, singer and songwriter

Paul Antony Young is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. He first came to wider notice as the frontman of Kat Kool & the Kool Cats, Streetband, and Q-Tips, then became a solo pop star in the 1980s. He is best known for a run of UK hit singles, including "Love of the Common People", "Wherever I Lay My Hat", "Come Back and Stay", "Every Time You Go Away", and "Everything Must Change". His debut album, No Parlez, released in 1983, was the first of three albums to reach number one in the UK.