Albert Hammond Snr, father of The Strokes' Albert Hammond Jr, has revealed in a new book that his guitarist son was a championship winning roller skater before starting his musical career. Hammond Jr told The Guardian: "It's weird it hasn't come out sooner. The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was never nervous, but the first time I got on stage, there were four people there and I vomited."
Hammond Snr gave up performing music to concentrate on writing and producing when his son was born but is to release his first record in 23 years, 'Revolution Of The Heart' on 23 May. He explained how he approved of his son's musical career right from the start, saying "He called me from university and said he had to choose between school and the band, and I said, 'The choice is made, it's the band.'"