Music doesn’t just resemble life, it reminds you occasionally of a certain song that seems somehow to frame your mood or your current position as you swim endlessly against the tide, it is life, it is existing, breathing in the moment, planning for the future and escaping to the glory or indeed the pain of the past and holding all the possible emotions that you are capable of in a dance of balance, of skill, precision and remembrance. Music is solitude, music is escapism, music has everything you can ask for and as Steve Harley explains across the telephone to me, “I’m a great fatalist, life is what it is, I’ve had pain, I’ve suffered as a kid, it made me who I am, you are who you are through the development of your experiences, influences and inspirations.”