Over the years, through thick and thin, Mick Fleetwood has always been a supportive friend. I first met him at Peter Green’s Putney flat, where Peter was living with his parents and had arranged for us to meet. The band had not yet been formed, but Peter had worked and recorded with Mick before in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and had liked his drumming style.

Of course, what was most striking about him was his height, and I wondered how that was going to fit into the band’s image! I recognised him from some early Big Beat music magazines, as having been a member of the Cheynes, except that I remembered him having had very straight hair, and now he was sitting with it in a flouncy curled perm. For me, living in the midlands for the last few years, that struck me as being rather ‘poofter’, and I was a little uncomfortable with that and his rather dandified ways! To this day, we still laugh together about my concerns and how Mick played on them to freak me out.