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Adrian John Pratt was born in Wallasey, Merseyside (The place where the ferry across the Mersey was headed for) in August 1957. In 1963 a gramophone was introduced to his home in Moreton on the Wirral.

His aunty Wilna gave him a gift of "Peter and the Wolf". His sister brought home a record by a new band that were starting to make it big in Liverpool known as the Beatles. He loved them both.

When he was thirteen, along came the seventies. The early seventies were a time of glam-rock. He went to his first ever rock concert - to see Marc Bolan and T-Rex in concert at the Liverpool Stadium.

That was it. He wanted to play in a band. He could play the piano. He could write songs. The Beatles did it. T-Rex where doing it. He could get a guitar. (When he did he called it Eric and wrote a poem about it.).

As the Seventies progressed all sorts of music emerged. The pioneers of Heavy Metal like Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, chart succesful rockers like Status Quo and Thin Lizzy, progressive rockers like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Yes, E.L.P ,Genesis and (his favourites) the still much underated Gentle Giant.

There were bands like Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull and Renaissance who were rooted in folk music, progressive jazz groups like Nucleus, Mike Gibbs Band and Soft Machine.

From Europe came the sounds of Can and Faust and Tangerine Dream. From the U.S came Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa. Some of the stalwarts of the sixties were still going strong, such as The Kinks and The Rolling Stones.

And there were a whole host of knowns and unknowns… King Crimson, Gong, Hawkwind, The Global Village Trucking Company, Greenslade, Curved Air, Henry Cow, Roxy Music, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band, Grimms… and so many more.

When they came to play Liverpool,

Adrian was there,

because he loved the music.

He could play the piano, he could write songs, he did learn to play guitar and he did get to play in a whole lot of bands.

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