When I was way younger, I was supposed to go to university. However, I met a girl, turned it down, lived with her and told my father the news which made him slightly unhappy with me for a number of years. It’s something I now regret - over forty years later. I ended up, at twenty-one, working for myself and did OK and have been doing the same ever since (up and down). And travelled to lots of places… I ended up as a winemaker in Bordeaux and make marginally good wine, and got an OBE for it - which was good. Around 1982 I wrote a number of songs which are all on this album. The only new one is ‘AND Now’, written about a wonderful woman that I was extremely lucky to meet after a marriage of virtually thirty years. Mark Brenner, who I’ve known for years, coerced this out of me and has run the whole thing ever since we embarked on it. I hope that you enjoy it as much as we have all done.