Mike Score, of Flock Of Seagulls, talked about his life growing up in Cyprus and Yorkshire. He admitted trying to smoke a cigarette when he was eight and burnt down a barn on his Granddad’s farm! ‘I managed to escape with my life but my hair all got burnt off,’ he said. So that accounts for the ludicrous haircut…

Boy George, who grew up in Eltham, South London, remembered having to go to church every Sunday until one day his brother pulled his trousers down during the service. ‘We never went back again,’ George recalled. ‘I was very pleased about that.’

Kurt Smith said he was top of the class at his primary school even though it was a struggle. ‘I was doing it for my parents. I wanted love but they gave me money.’ So he rebelled when he went to senior school and did badly in order to get attention. ‘By the time I was 13 I was in trouble all the time.’