August 14, 2012
The Vaccines’ frontman Justin Young has admitted that he wanted to be Elvis Presley as a kid.
The 25-year-old has revealed that he modelled himself on the ‘King of Rock and Roll’ when he was growing up and is subsequently very chuffed to be working within the same profession as the late hamburger-munching icon.
Young said: “‘Teenage Icon’ was inspired from when I was a kid and I always felt like Elvis Presley. And now I’m actually being given the opportunity to do that, on stage.”
Justin also revealed that he enjoyed his teenage years much more than he is currently enjoying his twenties.
He said: “People always told me that my teens would be the most confusing, difficult transitory period of my life. But I was so idiotic and reckless in my teens that I didn’t find them hard at all. I was just kissing girls and smoking weed.
“Now I’ve become more highly strung and found my twenties a lot harder. Meeting people for the first time and knowing they’re deciding whether or not you’re good-looking, talented, charismatic or not. It’s a head f**k.
“People are at different steps on the same path when before we were all neck and neck. It’s just confusing and scary.”
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Words by Andy Parker.
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