Going to prison for cocaine dealing made a man out of my son: Classical music prodigy NIGEL KENNEDY reveals his family drama - and how he's spent six figures on booze By Nicole Lampert Published: 11:52 BST, 9 August 2024 | Updated: 12:07 BST, 9 August 2024 e-mail 14 shares View comments When Nigel Kennedy was still just a child prodigy mastering the violin, he tried to fit in but his hair wouldn’t let him. There was a wild tuft at the top of his head that couldn’t be tamed, whether he tried to gel it down ‘like Bob Hope’ or grow it out until he was told to get it cut. Eventually he gave in to his inner punk.
.. and a star was born.
The former enfant terrible of the classical music world may be approaching his 70th birthday (his diary is so full that plans are already being made for the big day, even though it’s three years away), but his famous Mohican hairstyle is still very much in evidence as he greets me by popping his head round the gate at his Tardis-like north London home, one of three houses he owns (he’s thought to be worth around £5 million). The former enfant terrible of the classical music world may be approaching his 70th birthday (his diary is so full that plans are already being made for the big day, even though it’s three years away), but his famous Mohican hairstyle is still very much in evidence Aston Villa fan Nigel Kennedy and son Sark in 2000. Sark, now 27, was sentenced during Covid when Nigel was locked down in Poland, so he couldn't even .