camperfanatic

 My association with motorhomes and campervans stretches back to the late 1960s, influenced to a large extent by my fathers Rootes Commer Maidstone campervan ownership, and later his home-built ex-Co-op mobile butchers van. Like the majority of teenagers during that period I discovered music, at a time when the hippy trend was giving way to heavy metal, Glam rock and the tail end of the Beatles. I was a huge fan of bands such as The Kinks, The Small Faces and rock 'n' roll in general. I was a bit miffed when the Small Faces broke up, with Steve Marriott going off to form Humble Pie and the rest of the band becoming The Faces, with Rod Stewart as lead singer. Although a big fan of Marriott, I was never taken with HP, opting to follow the rest of the band and the Faces music. The stand out member for me was always Ronnie Lane, who with Steve Marriott in the Small Faces co-wrote such hits as Itchycoo Park, All or Nothing, Here Comes the Nice, Lazy Sunday, My Minds Eye and many mor...