Portrait of an artist - Albert Hammond Jr, musician

What got you started?Going to see the musical Buddy when I was 12. I thought, I want to do that. What was your big breakthrough?Joining the Strokes, and realising, after a year or two on the road, that we were actually making a living. Who or what have you sacrificed for your art?At the beginning, everything. When you're young and ambitious you have to put rehearsing before everything else. But when you're successful, you get to have your life back. What song would feature on the soundtrack to y...

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