Claim to Fame

The Independent once ran a regular feature where a well known person would have a double-page spread answering readers’ questions. My dad read it, not me. Anyway one week it was Howard Marks, and rabid dope fiend as I was at the time, my dad told me they were requesting questions for his feature.

So I submitted one, and it was published. I asked him what music he liked to listen to when getting stoned, and something about his then fledgling involvement with the club scene. I think he said he listened to Red Snapper when stoned. I’ve still got those couple of pages from the issue, which came out on my birthday, weirdly enough.