Hazel O’Connor is one of our new Testaments Of Youth. And what a youth! She packed in several lifetimes of experience in a few short years and it’s an absorbing read. Ian McCulloch told us in Issue 21 that he used to spend hours alone in his room listening to Ziggy Stardust over and over again until past 2am. ‘When I went to school the following morning I’d be knackered.’ In Issue 29, Jenny of the Belle Stars was the only black girl in her north London school – ‘And I kept getting beaten up. So I didn’t go…’