Editing Trevor Horn (section)

==Early life==
Trevor Charles Horn was born on 15 July 1949 to John and Elizabeth Horn in [[Hetton-le-Hole]], [[County Durham]], England, and grew up in [[Durham, England|Durham City]].<ref name=guardian2016/>{{sfn|Welch|2008|p=195}}<ref name="eveningchronicle2004">{{Cite web |last=Barr |first=Gordon |date=14 September 2004 |title=Relax? I Don't Do It |url=http://www.zttaat.com/article.php?title=35 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708075428/https://www.zttaat.com/article.php?title=35 |archive-date=8 July 2018 |access-date=8 July 2018 |website=[[The Evening Chronicle]] |via=Zttaat.com}}</ref> The second of four children, he has two sisters, including the novelist Marjorie DeLuca,<ref>{{Cite tweet |number=1378031550458077190 |user=Trevor_Horn_ |title=I have one very talented sister. If you're like me and need a good #book during lockdown these are the two to read.… |date=2 April 2021}}</ref> and a brother, the television producer [[Ken Horn]].<ref name="guardian2016">{{Cite web |last=Evans |first=Busola |date=12 August 2016 |title=Trevor Horn: 'My Wife's Death Hit Us Hard but the Family Is Still Together' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/aug/12/trevor-horn-my-wifes-death-hit-us-hard-but-the-family-is-still-together |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010104548/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/aug/12/trevor-horn-my-wifes-death-hit-us-hard-but-the-family-is-still-together |archive-date=10 October 2016 |access-date=12 August 2017 |website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Buggles |url=http://www.multinet.no/~jonarne/Hjemmesia/Favorittartister/buggles/buggles.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111030836/http://www.multinet.no/~jonarne/Hjemmesia/Favorittartister/buggles/buggles.htm |archive-date=11 November 2013 |access-date=26 March 2014 |website=Multinet.no}}</ref> His father was a maintenance engineer at the neighbouring dairy<ref>{{Cite book |last=Horn |first=Trevor |title=Adventures in Modern Recording: From ABC to ZTT |date=13 October 2022 |publisher=Nine Eight Books |edition=first}}</ref> and a professional musician who played the double bass in the Joe Clarke Big Band during the week.<ref name=guardian2016/><ref name="berklee">{{Cite web |last=Healy |first=Pat |date=29 March 2018 |title=Podcast Episode Nineteen: Trevor Horn |url=https://online.berklee.edu/takenote/podcast-episode-nineteen-trevor-horn/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708044906/https://online.berklee.edu/takenote/podcast-episode-nineteen-trevor-horn/ |archive-date=8 July 2018 |access-date=31 May 2018 |publisher=[[Berklee Online]]}}</ref><ref name=songwriting2014/> Horn attended [[Durham Johnston Comprehensive School|Johnston Grammar School]] in Durham.<ref name=guardian2016/>

At around eight years of age, Horn took up the double bass and was taught the basics by his father, including the concept of playing [[Triad (music)|triad]]s.<ref name=berklee/> He taught himself the bass guitar and became confident in [[sight-reading]] music, using guide books and practising on his father's four-string guitar in the spare room of the house. In his early teens, Horn filled in for his father on the double bass in the Joe Clarke band when he was late for a gig.<ref name=berklee/> At school Horn was given a recorder which he picked up with little effort as he already had music knowledge, and performed in the local youth orchestra.<ref name=berklee/><ref name=guardian2016/> His interests turned to contemporary rock acts such as [[the Beatles]], [[the Rolling Stones]], and [[Bob Dylan]]. At 14, Horn played electric guitar in his first group, the Outer Limits,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rogers |first=Jude |date=5 February 2019 |title="It's Entertainment, You Know?" Trevor Horn's Favourite Albums |url=https://thequietus.com/articles/25993-trevor-horn-interview-favourite-music?page=3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102012424/https://thequietus.com/articles/25993-trevor-horn-interview-favourite-music?page=3 |archive-date=2 November 2023 |access-date=8 May 2020 |website=The Quietus}}</ref> named after the [[The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)|1963 television series]], playing mainly covers by [[the Kinks]].<ref name=berklee/>{{sfn|Welch|2008|p=195}}<ref>"Buggles to be honoured at the Prog Awards!", ''Prog'', issue 69, p. 12</ref>

Horn went on to pursue a "succession of day jobs", including one at a rubber company.<ref name=berklee/> He also put on a [[Bob Dylan]] imitation act for two nights a week "with a harmonica around my neck", and played the bass at odd gigs.<ref name=berklee/> Then, at seventeen, Horn decided to pursue a career in music and "woke my parents up at 4am to tell them".<ref name=guardian2016/> They were reluctant at first as they wanted him to become a chartered accountant as he performed well in maths, but Horn had failed the required exams.<ref name=guardian2016/> Horn's parents pleaded with him to try one more job, but three months into his role as a progress chaser in a plastic bag factory, he was fired. "I said, 'That's it, I'm never going into that world again!'", and the next day, received an offer to play the bass in a local semi-professional band at a [[Top Rank Suite|Top Rank Ballroom]], playing top 40 and dance music for £24 a week for five nights' work.<ref name="guardian2016" /><ref name="berklee" /><ref name="zttaat">{{Cite magazine |last=Harrison |first=Andrew |date=May 2010 |title=Building the Perfect Beast |url=http://www.zttaat.com/article.php?title=1014 |url-status=live |magazine=[[Word Magazine]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915085454/http://www.zttaat.com/article.php?title=1014 |archive-date=15 September 2016 |access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> Horn also received airplay on [[BBC Radio Leicester]], performing self-written songs on a guitar.<ref name=berklee/>