Photo © Brian Cooke/Redferns – September 8 1971.
Claire Lonsdale… He was a good looking guy in his youth.
Tony Court-holmes… used to serve him beer when i worked in The Nelson in the old town of Hastings back in the 70s like a jar or two that lad
Gerry Fortsch… I remember John putting folding money in our pot when the Hippo Band played at the Standard.
John Wilde… John gave me one of the best jobs I ever had. The “Inside Out” album art. Two days and nights in Island studios in the company of John, Danny Thompson, Stevie Winwood, Chris Wood, Kesh Satie, Bobby Keyes and Remi Kabaka. My heads spins just thinking about it.
Keith Rodway… his best album I think, and the only one I still listen to. He once invited me to his house, as he lived in Heathfield when I had my record shop in the old town. He told me he ‘was hanging out with Eric’ and why didn’t I come over. I told him I was working so couldn’t. It was only some time later I realised ‘Eric’ was a certain well known guitarist!
John Wilde… I had my art pad with me and captured my ideas during recordings. I was so very fortunate, a unique experience. it’s the only JM album I listen too also. That’s a nutty story.
Chris Wood… Used to see him regularly in the Nelson. We made a return visit to the pub years after we had left Hastings. He was on the balcony….pissed as usual….with a black eye. I think it was the “downward pull of human nature” He was leaving the pub to play in Brighton that night. He wrote the most amazing songs…not what you would have expected from a drunk with a black eye 
Absolute genius
Jim Breeds… Except that’s not his Hastings home. 10 Coburg Place. Which looks nothing like the house in the photo.
Claire Lonsdale… Last year we took a look and it looked similar to the photo.
Vince Ray… Yes I was always puzzled by that. Clearly number 8, yet he lived at 10.
Claire Hamill… ahhhh