Janet Littlewood explains why it’s never too late to do something you love...
Sitting before an audience of 150 people, they cheered as if Debbie Harry had performed. Guitar in hand, I bowed, my eyes brimming with tears. ‘They’re clapping for me!’ I thought triumphantly.
Except, I wasn’t an award-winning rock star with multiple records under my belt, I was a mum-of-two who’d transformed into a rock chick — aged 63.
Music has been the love of my life since the age of 14. As soon as I heard Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles, I was hooked. I spent hours dancing to the radio and singing into my hairbrush back home in West Yorkshire. And, when I was old enough, I went out clubbing. I didn’t need booze to have fun, the music was mesmerising.
When I turned 21, moved to Swindon where I went to gigs, pubs and clubs most nights. I fell pregnant a few years later and I loved playing music to my bump. Lee was born in February 1974, followed by Gavin, seven years later.
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