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By Stacey Lynn
Jul 23, 2021
Today’s front man came to prominence in the 1980s with such monster hits as “I Want a New Drug,” “The Power of Love,” and “Hip to be Square,” among so many others. But before that he was really living the life of a musical Forrest Gump: As a kid his mom took in Billy Roberts as a boarder: he was the guy who wrote the Jimi Hendrix song “Hey Joe,” and he lived with today’s singer and his mom and taught the boy how to play harmonica.
His dad was a doctor by profession, but his dad’s passion was music. He was a drummer and a piano player. He recalls, “.he would just blast [music]. I mean, loud. And then he’d put us on the drums and he goes, “You’ve got to learn time.” So it started right there. And then when my parents split up, my dad got me guitar lessons; Visitation rights and guitar lessons was his day. And I took guitar lessons…[and went] away to prep school. And then one thing led to another.