 DANIEL CRAIG has joined the Hollywood A list, with a string of successful films and relationships with top models under his belt. But it has not always been that way. As a teenager he devoted his time to Hilbre High School rock band, Liverpool FC and sitting in the audience at the Everyman theatre, where he dreamed of greater things. A nine year-old Daniel settled in Hoylake in 1977 with his mother Olivia, sister Lea and later stepfather Max Blond. There he met and befriended a young Adam Brierley. "Danny and I had been friends since we were nine," says Adam, now 38. "He moved in a couple of roads away from my parents' house so I invited him to play football with us on the beach. After that we were friends through most of our school life. "His stepdad was an artist and in a jazz band and I was always in bands from the age of seven, so I liked going round to his house to see the instruments and equipment. "In secondary school my friend Pa u l Donnelly and I decided to put together a band. We wanted a charismatic frontman, but our voices were breaking - not exactly rock star material. I thought Danny would be perfect. He was very confident. He had a real presence on stage, he was always in stage shows - you could see how good he was even then. "The name for the band was Danny's idea; he was very into the theatre and I think he'd seen a play called Inner Voices at the Everyman. We all liked the name and it stuck." To complete the line-up they recruited Paul King on rhythm guitar and friend Andy Fennah as lead guitarist; both lads in the same year at Hilbre High School. "We'd been mates for years," remembers Andy from Greasby. "We were all into music so it seemed the natural thing to be in a band together. We used to do gigs at school and we entered a few competitions. "Danny was always saying he wanted to be an actor and he was very good. I remember seeing him in the school plays and you could see his potential." So Inner Voices, a band named after an obscure Louis Nowra play at the Everyman, was born. "In our final year the headmaster, Wally Bruce, was having a leaving concert," says Adam. "He was very religious and it was billed as a highbrow event with classical music, but we somehow managed to get a slot for Inner Voices. Trying to be rebellious we played a rocked up version of the House Of The Rising Sun. To our horror we found out The Animals were Mr Bruce's favourite band." | 
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