“He was a true believer” PHIL MAY | 12020

“I met Phil at Sidcup Art School in 1961. He had short hair at that point, he always wore a nice, tidy blazer, and he was into tennis – I was sure he always fancied himself as Robert Culp from ! We played guitars in the boys’ cloakroom and we played music in the canteen every lunchtime, everything from Peppermint Lounge stuff through to Howlin’ Wolf, Woody Guthrie, modern jazz. Phil absorbed it all. I was already rehearsing with Mick [], and Keith [] was also at the school – he had a little archtop that he tried to play like Scotty Moore.