I went to talk to Columbia about producing opportunities, but somehow I walked out with a job in A&R. I suppose technically I was qualified, as a musician myself, and my bosses seemed to believe that my being English gave me a different ear and a talent for coaxing someone special out of the masses. But I’m sorry to say I didn’t like the scouting much. It required that I drag myself out nearly every night to see live music, most of which was rather hackneyed, and I loathed the club scene. I was thirty, which of course sounds very young now, but back then seemed ancient to just be starting out.
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