"But my dad's a singer, and he does a lot of old Billy Joel songs.
My mother, who died a while ago, took this photo of me and my dad, and the Singer Gazelle with its nice two tone paintwork.
His heritage – mum Danish and French and prone to singing with Bulgarian choirs; dad a blues singer who lived in Tanzania, the Congo, Malawi and Oman – means he could go in any direction.
That's 6-year-old Gibson getting getting a lesson in self-confidence from her famous dad, the successful singer, songwriter, actor and bestselling author Tyrese Gibson.
In this one, dad Tom Fletcher, lead singer of the English band McFly, sings an original song called "Something New" while photos from each day of mom's pregnancy form a virtual flip book.
The Like's members have music-business dads — the lead singer, Z Berg, is the daughter of the producer Tony Berg, and Tennessee Thomas, on drums, is the daughter of Pete Thomas, Elvis Costello's drummer — and a flop 2005 debut album of glossy California pop.
The class factor has me initially rooting for Evans, a feeling only heightened by what he says about his club-singer dad: a volatile, somewhat sinister presence in the text, whom Evans describes as akin to "an angry traffic light", and a man whose anger "went from nought to sixty in about two seconds".
Such foresight comes more easily when your singer's dad is a lawyer.
Then a former Imperial Carpet salesman told Dad that a nightclub singer he'd "been banging" knew something about Alan.
