Billy Jenkins

b. 5 July 1956, Bromley, Kent, England. Jenkins started to play the violin when he was seven years old and sang in a Parish church choir until the age of 12, graduating to special choirs at Westminster and St. Paul's Cathedral. Piano and viola lessons started when he was 11, providing a theoretical background to self-taught guitar, which he began the following year. The formation of Burlesque in 1972 began a 10-year partnership with saxophonist Ian Trimmer. Burlesque's derisory attitude - musicians would crowd round drummer Kevin Currie during his solos, gasping with amazement...