Vashti Bunyan
Directly descended from The Pilgrim's Progress author John Bunyan, Vashti Bunyan was born in London in 1945 to John and Helen Bunyan. In the early sixties she studied at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University, but was expelled for failing to turn up to classes and spending her time writing songs. At 18 she travelled to New York and discovered Bob Dylan through his The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album and decided to become a full-time musician. Returning to London she was discovered by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham and in June 1965, under his direction, she released her debut single, the Jagger and Richards penned "Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind" (their own version later turning up on the outtakes compilation Metamorphosis), on Decca Records.
