The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.

The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.