Читать книгу 5 Seconds of Summer: Hey, Let’s Make a Band!: The Official 5SOS Book - Литагент HarperCollins USD, Ю. Д. Земенков, Koostaja: Ajakiri New Scientist - Страница 9

How 5SOS came to be is a pretty crazy story ...

When we started the band, the dream was to get guitars back on the radio because that’s the music we grew up with. The love of rock and punk music brought Michael, Luke, Ashton and me together when we were at school, but when I was younger my life could have gone one of two ways. I really loved football and I wanted to become professional. My favourite team was Liverpool and I dreamt of walking alongside their captain, Steven Gerrard. But as soon as I discovered music I knew it was the only thing I wanted to do.

I was always the ‘sporty’ one in my family. When we were at school, my older sister, Mali, was the musical one. I used to listen to her sing at school and at home and wonder why I was never as talented or as good as her at music. I definitely gained a lot of my love of music from her; she would blast R&B out of her bedroom.

We were a middle-class family. Mum worked in superannuation and Dad had a job with Coca-Cola, so it wasn’t the most glamorous life. Mum and Dad weren’t very musical but they could both sing. I remember my dad singing along to The Proclaimers out the back and not being able to get to sleep because of it. But I was extremely grateful – my parents gave me everything I needed with what little we had.

I was a shy kid at school. I never really spoke to anyone I didn’t know or make too much eye contact. It took me a while to come out of my shell, sort of – joining the band helped a lot. Despite my shyness back then, though, I made friends at school, but there were only a few close ones that knew a lot about me.

The only real classes I liked were PE and Music. I loved anything to do with sport. PE was always great and I’d like to think that I was good at English, but Music was kind of an escape. That was the class I looked forward to the most. In music I really felt myself. I always found time to play terribly on different instruments.

As a pupil, I think I was quite well behaved – but that changed a bit when I moved up into high school at Norwest and every single teacher’s comment on every report card read: ‘Calum has potential, but he gets distracted too easily.’ That was my life summed up in a sentence. As I grew older my grades got worse and worse. No matter how hard I studied I just didn’t excel. Later, there was a certain point when the band started where my grades went down the drain and my parents weren’t happy at all. It’s not cool to suck at school, but by then I didn’t really care about anything other than the band.