This much I know: Viv Albertine, writer and musician, former guitarist with The Slits

I cleaved onto music as an escape. It was my way out of an unpleasant childhood, says Viv Albertine.

I was obsessed with it from far too young an age.

The first record I heard was round my baby-sitters house. The Beatles ‘You Can’t Do That’ the B side to ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’.