Poem: ‘Short back and sides with a blowtorch, please’
Adrian Mitchell, 5 December 1991
Barbara Hepworth used to do my hair. I was a weekend Ted in those days and Miz H could shape a mean Pompadour. She liked to get a sort of surfer’s tunnel through the front. Trough of the Wave, she called it, and from the right angle you could see right through my hair like my head had a hole in it, which it didn’t. I jacked in Babs finally because she’d always be playing the...
