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JAZZIE B

At 16 my main passions were music, girls, football, fashion and family – in that order. By then, I’d played my sound system outside my house on the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977. So that was already on my radar. I was having 20,000 ideas a day. My imagination was running wild, I can’t emphasise this enough. I’m really impressed with my younger self ’s imagination.

My heroes were Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown was a massive idol, Dennis Brown, Bob Marley, King Jammy, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry… and my sociology teacher Mr Gordon. Even the guys in the local scrapyard, I used to think their lives looked amazing. Maybe they inspired my hoarding career. But I came up at the time when you fixed or repaired or recalibrated things. So I didn’t just have a Raleigh Chopper bike, I fixed it up to look like a Yamaha 125 motorbike. I’ve always been

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