Huey Morgan looks back: My father left when I was seven. Music was a way to derail those feelings of not being good enough'

"I was 14 and feeling myself. I'm dressed in nylon parachute pants, a Members Only jacket, my bandana and a Van Halen necklace. On the amplifier you can see a bad graphic design of the letters SD, which I thought was the greatest logo of all time. It stands for Sudden Death, the name of my band. When I was a teenager, music was a way for me to make connections."

"My father left my mother and me when I was about seven. It left a dark cloud over me, and writing and playing songs became a catalyst; a way to get out of myself, to derail those feelings of not being good enough. With ADHD, you can treat it as a flaw or embrace it as a gift. I realised early on that mine came with an ability to hyperfocus."

Born in 1968 in New York, Huey Morgan joined the US marines at 18 and was honourably discharged before forming Fun Lovin' Criminals. The band's first album, Come Find Yourself, went platinum in the UK and featured the hit single Scooby Snacks. Morgan hosts a weekly BBC 6 Music show and published a memoir titled The Fun Lovin' Criminal. He experienced childhood abandonment after his father left when he was seven, and used songwriting and performance as a way to cope. He had ADHD and leveraged hyperfocus to practice for hours and record on a four-track, while compensating for low confidence.

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