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‘We’d get big, rugby-playing men coming up to us in tears and saying “I miss my dad” – or “I love my dad and I’ve never told him”’

Diggers.” He drove a Massey Ferguson digger in his own father’s groundworks company and would pick me up from school in it straight from a job. One kid a couple of years older than me at school would often pummel me, and my dad always felt so warm, loving and safe by contrast. I was inspired by the garage sound that was big at the time so I had that kind of rhythm in my head and then it was like: “I’m Luke, I’m five and my dad’s Bruce Lee.” When that combination of double-timing things came in, I was like: “This has got some magic juice to it.”

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