Iron Man (21 page)

 

It'll never catch on. Playing the accordion, like my dad before me, in our backyard in Park Lane

 

Spot the hooligans: me on the back row top right, and Albert Chapman at the left end of the middle row

 

My first Strat, before I painted it!

 

My first proper band, the Rockin' Chevrolets, in 1964

 

The Rest, my first band with Bill Ward

 

Dad didn't like the car I bought him but he loved his tractor

 

The Lamborghini is worth about five times more than my parents' house

 

Photo shoot for a Rolls Royce calendar. Did it ever come out?

 

Inside the famous Kilworth conservatory with the first of my many dogs

 

My first wedding, with Best Man John Bonham (far right of picture), 1973

 

Kilworth House, where I lived with my first wife, Susan

 

Dodgy characters

 

We seem happy!