Opting instead to develop his artistic talents, he attended Isleworth College in 1966 to obtain an A level in Art, moving to Ealing College of Art that autumn to embark on a course in Graphic Design and Illustration. He would graduate in the summer of 1969, aged twenty-three, with a Diploma in Graphic Art and Design. Far from being ‘the equivalent of a degree’, it failed to match the scholarly brilliance achieved by his future fellow band members.
