Musician and songwriter
Nick Troop learned to work a record player as a baby when he still had to hold on to the furniture to stand up. And most of his salient memories from childhood involve music in some way: Don McLean, The Seekers, Peter, Paul & Mary, Bob Dylan, Elvis, John Denver.
"Puff the Magic Dragon" still makes him cry.
From 1976 onwards Nick's soundtrack was essentially a loop tape of a Sunday night Radio 1 Top 40. Thankfully, when John Lennon was killed in 1980, his music was all over the charts and Nick moved on or he could still be listening to Wings' "Mull of Kintyre" and Manhattan Transfer's "Chanson d'Amour".
Nick took up guitar when he became a Beatles fan as they re-released albums 20 years after their original release. Nick then took up songwriting when he became a Bowie fan after "Let's Dance" was released although it was actually due to Nick discovering The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
By the mid-80s Nick was a pseudo-Goth but spent most of the 90s in women's blouses, tight black jeans and long red hair (and was regularly barred from going into men's toilets due to apparently genuine mistakes over his gender). By the 00s Nick was wearing short hair and suits that hadn't been fashionable for 30 years.
Throughout this time Nick had been in various bands/line-ups as the singer until he gave up the singer role to a much better looking and much more female frontperson in One Perfect Portrait. It was only when this fell through that Nick decided he needed to release solo albums but hid behind a band name, CatDesigners, with the intention to put a band together to gig the albums he had recorded on his own.
CatDesigners also fell through as a band and so Nick has performed as a solo acoustic artist ever since.
This is what Jacques Brel would have sounded like if he had been English and a Bowie fan.