Toyah was born in Birmingham, the daughter of a wealthy antique dealer and a retired ballerina. She remembered being tortured by some other girls in her first year at school. She maintained the reason for this was because she looked very funny when she cried and the other kids found it amusing. She told us she didn’t have a particularly happy childhood and hated everyone.

Julian Cope’s childhood photo was the epitome of innocence. He was born in Glamorgan, the son of an insurance man and a teacher who used to read poetry to him in bed. He used to take a lot of shit at comprehensive school for being called Julian and having a middle-class accent and his aim in life was to be Robin Hood (geddit?).

Biff of Saxon looked like a kid from the 1930s in his photo. It could almost have been sepia. His Testament was one of the most moving. He grew up in a village near Huddersfield. The saddest thing that happened to him during his childhood was his mum dying when he was just 12. Two years later, his dad lost an arm in an accident at work and when his brother and sister left home to get married, Biff had to look after him.