Jools Holland: My family values

The musician and broadcaster talks about his familyWe make too much of class differences in this country. I meet people from really grand backgrounds who had horrible parents who took no interest in them, whereas I'm a working-class boy from Deptford who was worshipped by all my rellies. Everybody in my extended family helped to raise me, and I realise now how lucky I was to grow up among kind folk.People forget that music is a therapeutic, healing thing. At 11, I went to live with my maternal n...

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