Steve’s decade of Madness after learning to play sax

SAXOPHONIST Steve Turner might have entered the music industry later in life, but he has certainly made up for lost time.

After setting up a Madness tribute band The Los Palmas 6, the father-of-four was invited to play for Madness full-time, and spent eight years accompanying the British ska band as it travelled around the world.

Steve, of Cissbury Road, Ferring, did not pick up a saxophone until he was 30. He said: “A friend of mine used to teach and asked me to have a lesson ten years before I ended up doing so but as soon as I started, I gave up my job as a financial adviser straight away.

“I absolutely loved it and knew that I no longer wanted to be doing a normal job. I took a classical music course at college in 1995.