Are they still so clever and classless and free?

[lojo]

Weren't Genisis all posh except for Phil Collins ?

I remember around kids getting upset when they found out Puff Daddy was a graduate and business student, not from the ghetto.

Most who make it in music and sport etc, with a few exceptions will be from good supportive backgrounds, be it working class or middle class, as it takes commitment and money to learn most things to a good level.

[spectoremg]

[quote name='BassBus' timestamp='1450818151' post='2936212']
I seem to remember reading somewhere that the guys in Genesis and Pink Floyd started their working lives down the pit.
[/quote]The coalfields of Surrey and Cambridge!

[spectoremg]

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1450819386' post='2936237']
I was brought up in the 70's to an alcoholic father and a mentally unstable mother. Eventually my Grandparents legally adopted us kids.
I left school at 15 with no qualifications and no trade, drifting from unskilled job to unskilled job, getting my girlfriend pregnant and ending up in a B&B waiting for a council flat.
I applied for a job with the then, London Transport as a Guard on the tube trains in late 1988, and am now one of Londons most hated.
[url="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/politics-blog/11729222/I-pointed-out-how-much-tube-drivers-earn.-Some-people-werent-happy.html"]http://www.telegraph...rent-happy.html[/url]
Even this year, i was thinking about getting a new USA Fender Precision, but still felt a pang of guilt even though I could now afford it. And a nice house and car.
I suppose you never really lose your roots.
[/quote]I have a colleague who adopted his grandson - total respect!

[upside downer]

"I know my place."