Norris, Alan

Alan was born in Poole, Dorset, England on October 1st 1948. As a child, he lived in Canada for a few years in what was then a tiny settlement called Malton near Toronto, Ontario. He went to his first school in the village, a one-room school that was quite basic but typical of the times, in those outlying areas of the Canadian countryside. Later in life he travelled to Western Australia where he worked as a design draughtsman and, in his spare-time, played drums with a very active band called 'Unicorn'. Eventually, Alan returned to England, where he found a winter season of high unemployment a...