He will be racing in a mini at the fifth Croft nostalgia event. "I was 17-and-a-half when I got my first car - a Ford Popular, sit-up-and-beg style and with only three gears," says the rocker. "That August, I was in my home village of Dunston near Gateshead with not much to do, when somebody said there was racing on at Croft - so on a rainy day and with just one windscreen wiper on this Popular, myself and two friends headed down there. We drove straight past the lady on the gate because we couldn't afford to buy tickets."