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In June 1980, 19-year-old James McDonnell (known as Slim Jim Phantom) boarded a plane from New York to London with his childhood friends and band mates Brian Setzer and Lee Rocker. In less than a year, they went from being homeless, hungry, and living in punk rock squats to spearheading the neo-rockabilly movement of the early 80s.

Slim Jim has just released his autobiography, 'A Stray Cat Struts - My Life as a Rockabilly Rebel'.

Described by one of his oldest friends, Glen Matlock from The Sex Pistols, as a "master of the spectacularly cool", Slim Jim talks to James Coomarasamy about his life with Britt Ekland and stealing Dusty Bin.

(Photo: Slim Jim Phantom. Credit: Getty Images)