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Music

The man who’s spent 40 years trying (and failing) to become a pop star

8 September 2018

9:00 AM

8 September 2018

9:00 AM

‘I could still be a pop star,’ says Lawrence, sitting on a footstool in his council flat, high up in a tower block above London EC1. ‘I know I’m not going to be a person who has a million hits on the internet. Do they call them hits? Views, or streams, whatever they are.

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