The first song I remember hearing
I was living in New York in Flushing, Queens in the early 60s, the time of the British invasion of the Beatles. But my favourite was My Boy Lollipop by Millie Small, an artist from Jamaica. It was the first record that [Island records founder] Chris Blackwell promoted. He would take all the records, put them in the trunk of his car and go around selling them in stores in London.
The song I inexplicably know every lyric to
I don’t know why, but Sympathy for the Devil by the Rolling Stones. It’s as if it were my life story.
