![]() He did not enjoy the experience and after joining Acton County Grammar School aged 11, switched to the trumpet, moving to the French horn when he joined the Middlesex Schools Symphony Orchestra. His musical career began aged 7, when he started taking piano lessons. Divorce was uncommon in the 1940s, and this contributed to Entwistle becoming reserved and socialising little. His parents' marriage failed soon after he was born, and he was mostly raised by his mother at his grandparents' house in South Acton. ![]() ![]() ![]() His father, Herbert, who died in 2003, played the trumpet and his mother, Maud (née Lee) (29 November 1922 – 4 March 2011), played the piano. John Alec Entwistle was born on 9 October 1944 in Chiswick, a district of west London.
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