““Roger was actually a very good student, very clever,” Nick says, “but the staff hated him as he always sort of sneered at them. They made him drop a year as he failed his exams ’cos he never bothered to turn up, hadn’t been to a single lecture. The famous moment was the History of Architecture paper, which said, ‘Say something about Egyptian hieroglyphics’, so he filled in his name and number and then wrote, ‘Egyptian hieroglyphics are a sort of picture writing.’ And that was it. That was all he wrote.””— Nick Mason, The Times May 2nd 2015









