While living in Germany in 1971, Danielz heard a song on the radio that would change his life forever. That particular song was called 'Jeepster'. A track written by, of course, Marc Bolan. The song hit like a bolt of lightning and sucked Danielz into the world of music and forever after, Marc Bolan and T.Rex. Danielz did get to see Bolan and T.Rex in action twice in Germany. The first time was in the Munsterland Halle, Munster on 1 February 1972 where Danielz felt physically sick from the excitement of the concert, and again at the Grugahalle in Essen on 16 February 1973, where he and two friends had skipped school to arrive early to hear the whole of the soundcheck from outside the auditorium!

Danielz was only a child at the time, and it wasn't until a couple of years later when he returned to England, and now living in Folkestone, where he decided to form his first band Agony. "It was just a garage band really, playing Status Quo and T.Rex music with a few friends who had instruments. Having parents in the Forces was always a little difficult to settle down, as soon as friends were made, you moved onto a different county or country, so getting a regular band together seemed pointless." It wasn't until Danielz had moved to Crayford, Kent by 1975 that a permanent home was realised.

Shortly after moving to Crayford, Danielz played his first acoustic show at Sandhurst Theatre, near Folkestone. While only playing a few numbers in the interval, it paved the way for experiencing an audience reaction to his live presentation. Danielz played two original numbers, 'Change' by T.Rex, and a song by Bob Dylan. This sealed his ambition to play and make some kind of living in music.

Through the remaining decade Danielz saw T.Rex on the 'Dragon' tour in 1976 at The Lyceum Theatre in London, and on the 'Dandy' tour at The Rainbow Theatre, London, in 1977. "I was so glad that I had decided to go to The Rainbow. Little did I know that it would be Marc's last ever concert in Britain. I would never have forgiven myself if I hadn't attended that night."

In 1978 Danielz met up with a guy called Paul Sinclair and formed 'Weird Strings' -named after the synth-strings section in the song 'Celebrate Summer'. They recorded their first ever single called 'Ancient & Square', a song penned by Danielz. It actually hit the lower regions of the independent charts in Record Mirror. Danielz followed it up with an 'Ace Records' release entitled 'Criminal Cage', which was played by John Peel after Danielz had personally handed him a copy. "I'll only play it if I like it" he said, so he must have done! Both records got away with cheap sounding quality mainly because they were (!) and also because many bands around this time were themselves, venturing into the studios for the first time.

Danielz parted company with Paul Sinclair (later Paul Roland) in 1980, but remained in touch long enough for Paul to ask Danielz to session on an LP he was recording under the name of 'Midnight Rags.' Danielz played lead guitar throughout the album which was later titled 'Werewolves of London' and released in 1980, and also, though not credited, played guitar alongside Knox and Andy Ellison on a version of 'Hot George.'

During the early 1980's Danielz found other various musicians and gigged at venues such as the '101 Club' in London under the name of 'Paladin Heat', playing original material but getting nowhere. Sometime in 1983 Danielz decided to go into the studio with Knox of The Vibrators, and record his own composition entitled 'I Wouldn't Lie', together with a song called 'Cadilac' - a number that had been written by Marc Bolan. 'I Wouldn't Lie' enabled Danielz to obtain a recording contract with Gary Numan's company in Shepperton Studios, where he recorded a whole batch of demos, including a very early version of a song called 'Baby Factory'.

By September 1983, Shepperton Studios had offered Danielz studio equipment that was first rate, and to work with musicians that had years of previous recording experience. Self-penned tracks such as 'Observation', 'Hot Lady', and 'Jacqueline Hyde', were recorded with the likes of Ced Sharpley (Gary Numan's drummer), Lindsey Bridgewater (Ozzy Osbourne Band), Paul King (Mungo Jerry), Tom and Tim Farmer (Blackfoot Sue), and others. It was only when the forthcoming release of 'Baby Factory' was withdrawn by them that Danielz parted company. "They said it was lyrically too rude for their label and could I change some of the words. I said no, and so that was basically it really. It was a fantastic experience though, working with professional musicians in a 24 track studio."

Danielz went straight from Shepperton to an audition in the East End of London for a job as lead vocalist in a hard rock band, later to be known as Tarazara. Danielz was accepted after dozens of others had been rejected. From a t-shirt, no-image band, Danielz moulded and shaped them into the glam image he was always a part of.

Tarazara played original and self-penned songs around the rock clubs of Britain, even gigging with the likes of The Sweet at The Wardour Street Marquee, London, to The Wolverhampton Civic Hall with Gary Glitter, and even Eddie and the Hot Rods in Bath! They even became the darlings of the hard-rock music press for a time receiving outstanding reviews from Mary-Anne Hobbs in 'Sounds', and Malcolm Dome in 'Kerrang!', before performing at the Earls Court Music Fair.

In May 1985 Tarazara were asked to perform on the Channel 4 hard-rock television show 'E.C.T.' They performed two songs completely live, 'Behind The Mask', and 'Fantasy'. The band also recorded a session for Radio One's Friday Rock Show, which was later repeated through public demand.

The band recorded a handful of songs, including titles such as 'Fantasy', 'Send Me Your Love Tonight', 'Shout It Out', 'Sweet Suicide', to name a few. Fan club letters arrived by the dozen. T-shirts sold out with the Danielz made-up logo of 'Grind-Squeeze-Suck-Tease'. It was only when the inevitable 'deal' fell through from Atlantic Records that the band became disheartened. Then to cap it all, Simon, the drummer, who was also an actor, was offered a part in the BBC soap 'Eastenders'. It was an offer he couldn't refuse, and by that time Danielz was beginning to feel the strain of unsettlement and couldn't be bothered to go through the process of auditioning drummers. What could've been a successful unit had fallen by the wayside.

In 1987 Marc Arscott, after speaking to Caron Thomas about Danielz, sent a letter to him asking if he would consider letting him release his version of Cadilac on a forthcoming 'Tribute To Marc Bolan' album, which would later be titled 'An Exalted Companion'. An agreement was set up and the song was eventually included on the album in 1988 on the Barracuda Blue label. A few years later, Marc would again use another two recordings of Danielz 'Fantasy', and an early recording of 'Baby Factory' for his 1991 release, 'Point & The Rays' cassette tape album.

In the midst of the Tarazara split, Danielz was being watched by Adrian Millar, one time manager of the 1970's rock band, The Baby's (which featured John Waite). As Tarazara went their separate ways, Danielz struck up a songwriting deal with Adrian and spent the next year writing and recording songs such as 'Tail Lights Flashing', 'Looking Through Your Mind', and 'Woman In The Gallery'. Through 1987 Danielz had had enough of being cooped up inside just writing songs and not being able to get out and play live, which was all he really wanted to do. As 1988 approached Danielz parted company, but not before Adrian had collected the eight or so vintage guitars that he had lent Danielz over the past year!

Now free and out of contract, Danielz recorded just three tracks which he produced on his own before 1988 disappeared, 'Where Were You', 'Personal Touch', and 'Some Romantic Night' - which he views as three of the best songs he's ever recorded. The next 3 years saw Danielz step out of the music business totally while settling in with his new partner and future wife Caron.

Side stepping slightly, 1990 saw Danielz and Caron begin the task of writing a book purely about Marc Bolan. Entitled 'Wilderness Of The Mind', Xanadu Publishing snapped up the offer of publication and in 1991 their book was seen in both hardback and paperback format. Just a few years later in 1998, a Japanese publisher would offer them a deal to enable the book to be published in Japan, making it the first ever Marc Bolan book to be translated into Japanese.