Page 6 - Johm Bonham

EARLY LIFE

A few days after John’s

dramatic birth, parents

Joan and Jack moved

with baby John to 38

Meadow Hill Crescent,

B98 8HT

After a few months they

relocated to the nearby

Hunt End area on the

outskirts of Redditch, before returning

to the town with young John and baby

brother Michael around 1952 and

settling at 157 Easemore Road,

B98 8HU

“I’ve wanted to be a drummer since I was about five

years old. I used to play on a bath salt container with

wires on the bottom, and on a round coffee tin with a

loose wire fixed to it to give it a snare drum effect. Plus

there were always my Mum’s pots and pans.”

John Bonham