John Peel told us he was mercilessly bullied at boarding school and never kissed a girl until he was 16, ‘And that will sound quite bizarre to the kind of hooligans that read Flexipop!’ he said. He reckoned he must’ve been of Olympic standard when it came to auto-eroticism and came to the conclusion that there’s no such thing as a happy childhood.

Pete Murphy said he was brought up in a Catholic family and went to a strict Catholic school where the headmaster was a, ‘Bastard’ who caned kids all the time. He admitted being infatuated with girls and fell in love with a snotty nosed girl when he was just six years-old.

Woody of Madness is our first ‘new’ Testament of Youth, done only a few days ago. After his parents split up when he was just a toddler, Woody and his brother, Nick, were left to their own devices which had its advantages – and its drawbacks…