People ask me how come I'm still alive & I don't know what to say. When I was growing up if you'd have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street & asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty with five kids & four grandkids & houses in Buckinghamshire & California I wouldn't have put money on me no f**king way. But here I am: ready to tell my story in my own words for the first time. A lot of it ain't gonna be pretty. I've done some bad things in my time. But I ain't the devil. I'm just John Osbourne: a working class kid from Aston who quit his job in the factory & went looking for a good time.