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David was open about the claustrophobia of living with his mother and father. Claustrophobia also led to the rapid turnover of people with whom he worked; the moment they started making demands or seeing themselves as permanent fixtures, David started seeing them as part of the dullness and convention that oppressed him. As Dek Fearnley, the man closest to David in 1966, observed, even at the time, “He wanted to get away from home. And he wanted to get away from being in a band in exactly the same way, if that makes sense.
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