Growing up is not easy. So many decisions: who to revere, Sheene or McEnroe? WHo to imitate, Starsky or Hutch? Who to dislike overnight in an effort to show maturity, Thatcher or Scargill? How to decide which pin-ups to unpin when a batch of Animal Rights leaflets or a satirical poster of Ronald Reagan demands wall space?

The Impressionable Age of a young man lasts around a decade and the idols and icons of that period can reveal much of the time and of the impressed subject.

Nostalgic, warm and laugh-out-loud funny, My Favourite People & Me, 1978-1988 is an affectionate trip through a suburban childhood in Essex and an eighties education in Kent.