They were like the first hippies in London. In the summer, everyone had their windows open, and there was all of this Blue Beat coming out of the windows. Some of the people moved out of there and moved into our area, which wasn’t far away, so there was quite a lot of West Indian people around there. He was charging exorbitant rents and some of them were living there illegally, so they couldn’t do anything about it. There was a landlord called Rachman and he used to set fire to people’s places that weren’t paying rent. It was just around the hill from Notting Hill where, in the ‘50s, the first West Indian immigrants had come over. At a young age, I was in the middle of a real overspill from Portobello Road. Where I lived was not far away from this place called Portobello Road, which is like the Melrose of London, where all the trendy types go. We were all struggling to get by, which I didn’t realize at the time. We had good neighbors that were just a few doors away, so we were quite a little tight knit family. There was no central heat, so we had a paraffin stove. We lived on the top floor and we didn’t have a bathroom, so we just had a tin bath once a week. We lived in one of those little two-up, two-down houses. Although he did work for Rolls Royce building Rolls Royce’s, but he stopped doing that because he found he got more money repairing London buses, believe it or not. Tell me what it was like growing up as a kid in London? Christmas is great because everyone fucks off back home and we get clawback time. Most people in London don’t come from there. It’s Glen Matlock from London, England, sitting in your Mercedes here. Hello, Steve, but it is afternoon isn’t it? The sun is over the yardarm. Glen Matlock is, and always will be part of the reason why, some of us choose to follow a movement, that changed lives around the world… I thank you, for being you… A craftsman, songwriter, and musician changing the world of Rock n Roll with songs crafted from the soul. Influence from others…then you pass it on, without even knowing it…Never even trying to… Just doing it, and living it and being it. When you just feel it, trust it, and go with it, things happen, and more.
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