Norman Watt-Roy

Norman Watt-Roy has enjoyed a 40-year career in rock music as a bassist, working with sounds ranging from mid-'60s freakbeat to '70s new wave and pub rock, and '80s ska revival. Born to an Anglo-Indian family in Bombay in 1951, he came to England with his family in 1955 and spent the next four years living in Highbury, in North London. He spent most of the rest of his youth in Essex, until his mid-teens when he returned to London. He had arrived in England just as rock & roll was crossing the Atlantic, and by age 11 he was playing rhythm guitar with his brother Garth in a loca...