“The song is, first of all, based around two chords”, says Wolf. “It was originally called A and E. And the two chords it’s based on are A and E,” But he was saved from having to call the song Apples and Edelweiss by a well-timed tour of Belgium. “It reminded me of a time when I was 11”, he says. “I was a choir boy and we were on tour. We were on the motorway in a double decker coach and I was on the bottom deck – it went over a bump and I fell out of the emergency exit. I was in a coma for a week.”

Wolf soon become known at school as “the boy who survived falling out of a coach”, not that this gained him any respect. “I actually became the freak of the school you know. So I started making lots more music.”

(The Guardian)[

Patrick Wolf — the Guardian

He may play the harp, harpsichord, organ, theremin, ukulele, viola and violin but if he hadn't become a musician Patrick Wolf could have been employed as a safety inspector. Surely few other pop stars could sniff out dangerous situations as readily as this pink-haired polymath.