John Mayall's teenage obsessions: 'I lived in a tree house until I got married' | Music
John Mayall and John Mayall and (from left) his tree house, Lead Belly and a copy of Weird Tales. Composite: Getty/Alamy As a huge box set of his work is released, the 87-year-old British bluesman reminisces about the thrill of discovering boogie-woogie piano and buying his first six-string in Japan Fri 29 Jan 2021 04.00 EST My tree house I lived in Acre Lane in Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester, and became a teenager on 29 November 1946. My parents had divorced and I lived with my mother and my grandfather. The house was a bit crowded, so I built a tree house in the garden, which basically...