In his Testament Of Youth, Simon Le Bon reckoned his mum used to look like Jane Russell – ‘very glamorous with endless legs.’ He had a very middle-class upbringing in Pinner, Middlesex, and remembered being asthmatic and quite emotional - running away from nursery school after getting upset singing, Who Killed Cock Robin?

Paul Weller’s childhood was the exact opposite of Simon’s. His mum worked as a cleaner in a Woking mosque and when he went to visit her he fell in the pond and, ‘I shit myself, literally.’ He hated his teachers with a passion and that’s when he decided he would show the bastards he didn’t need their rules.

Jim Kerr’s mum worked in a cake shop as he was growing up in the heart of Glasgow. Like Simon, Jim admitted to being a very sensitive child. ‘It was very important to me that the teachers liked me at primary school. I used to worry about it and scared of getting into trouble.’