Casa Nova Rolling Stone

But only fools know love! I ran away from home as a young boy stepping into the unknown without fear, breaking rules because I have none myself. When I lost everything and everyone I became a lonely, negative, criminal ego animal. Nothing good went into my brain. I went really insane.I have learned from my own experiences that if you leave a child to its own devices and without attention, it will turn into an ego animal. I have trodden a path through life somewhere between reality and imagination,fact and fable, tragedy and nonsense. I began life in the middle of nowhere, in a remote village in Azerbaijan of Iran.I was a rebellious child from birth. Born to a mother who was a mystical singer, I was from an early age fascinated and transfixed by music and poetry,and even worked for a year in a cow pasture just to buy my first radio. I left my father and mother and homeland in search of adventure,freedom and rock and roll. In the company of two friends I left my orignal country, and, having illegally crossed the borders of all the wartorn countries on the way, arrived in Pakistan,after which my two friends returned to Iran and I yourneyed on to Holland. On getting my Dutch Passport I made my base in London, where I spent my time honing my musical skills and became a regular at the legendary Soho recording studio, Tin Pan Alley.It was in Tin Pan Alley thatI meet some of the influential players in my first band, Naked as Friends. They were bass player Steve Lawrance, drummer …