Terry St Clair (born Terry Sharrott, 1951) is a British folk musician, guitarist and composer. Background St Clair was born in Burslem, Staffordshire, England. As a child, he demonstrated his desire to become a musician. He would try to play anything that could produce a tune. He grew up alongside his elder brother Ian Sharrott, who was also interested in music, but who chose to pursue a career in computers. St Clair and his family moved to Hinckley, Leicestershire in 1953. His parents encouraged his love of music, arranging for piano lessons at the age of nine. He also practised his singing skills as a member of the local church choir, where he also played the church organ. He was educated at Hinckley Grammar School, and it was at a school concert that he heard older pupil Geoffrey Richardson (later joining progressive rock group Caravan) performing the folk blues of Bert Jansch and Jackson C. Frank, inspiring St. Clair to take up the guitar. His first guitar was home-made, and hardly stayed in tune. Whilst working at the local printers W. Pickering and Sons. he and friends Pete Thomas and Mervin Wallace took over the running of the Bar W Folk Club in Barwell. Early career After he left school, worked as an apprentice book-binder, enrolling at the Matthew Bolton College in Birmingham. During this five-year period he spent most of his time playing guitar and singing in local folk clubs. St Clair started to write songs during this period. The first being "You Don't Need Me", written for a friend who used heroin and died in 1993. "You Don't Need Me" was not recorded until 1994, on Basically. In 1968 St Clair met Toni Savage. Savage was a local folk club organiser and agent. He ran a private press from his workshop in Leicester, where he printed and published material for Spike Milligan among others. Savage supported St Clair's career, and booked him into folk clubs and concerts around the country. St Clair's television debut was on ITV's New Faces on his birthday in 1974, singing one of his own songs, "So Many Empty Mornings'". That same year he headed south for London and a professional life as a singer-songwriter, playing in wine bars and restaurants. In 1977 St Clair moved back to the Midlands, got married, and had a daughter Anna (born 1978). He also took a job