I remember staring at the album cover [a picture of a cake made by Delia Smith] and thinking how strange it looked, and how this music had an angelic quality to it," he says. "As it turned out the album's arranger, Jack Nitzsche, knew my dad, and Let It Bleed would be on repeat alongside Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Art Pepper, Charlie Mingus and Artie Shaw. All of them influenced me hugely, but I'm six.