Once upon a time at Millend Hospital, Dagenham Essex in the South of England, a lady named Rose Farnham gave birth to a healthy 5 pound 1 ounce baby boy on 1 July 1949. Rose and her husband, John, named their son John Peter Farnham. Johnny, as he had come to be known, had always been a lover of music and at age 6 received his first record player, and his first musical instrument was a plastic 4 string guitar. That wasn't a very pleasant time for me.
Young kids can be cruel.
It was awful. I still have trouble with my weight and it can fluctuate up and down a stone at a time. High School treated him a little better and it was here that he got his first glimpse of his future career. They performed at School Socials and generally had a good time. During his school holidays he had been working for a friend of the family's business, Caulfield Heating.