Chris Sullivan

I was born in the hard bitten, cockney enclave that was the East End of London on 21st January 1952. My parents moved to Wimbledon when I was 18 months old seeking a safer and more pastoral way of life. Greener it certainly was but alas it wasn't safer. My childhood soon became a constant struggle. But I grew up quickly and developed a self preservation tool against adversity. It was called a sense of humour. At grammar school my unseasoned rump soon developed a close relationship with a two foot stick called the 'cane.' I escaped at 17, flitting around a few unsuitable jobs before becoming a Foreign Exchange Broker at 20. Shortly afterwards my character was tested once more. Moneybroking afforded me a lifestyle I could only dream of as a child from a council estate. But that's where I learnt to play guitar and sing. Parallel to my career I sang in pubs, performed stand up comedy to sporting and corporate audiences and wrote poems and songs. I married at 33 and spent nine mostly joyful years before we separated. We divorced 5 years later. I was made redundant from broking after 25 years and became a film extra, comedian, gardener to the UK's largest drug importer, lorry driver and so on. I now live happily with Deborah in Surrey.