Kula Shaker’s Crispian Mills had a colourful childhood
Crispian Mills knew he’d be onstage as he’s from a “family of professional show-offs” but they begged him not to be an actor. He talks here about his extraordinary showbusiness childhood and the band that emerged from it full of psychedelia, echoes of the East and warm invitations to join the First Congregational Church of Eternal Love and Free Hugs. Along with … … his mother Hayley Mills playing him Tubular Bells to get him to sleep - “profoundly scary” … Roman Polanski’s ‘special’ Marlboro cigarettes when filming Tess in Brittany … grandfather John Mills being “discovered” by Noel Coward in…
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