Luke was born and brought up on the Isle of Wight, a small island off the south coast of England. Like most youngsters, Luke took a keen interest in the music of the day, and as a teenager listened to The Beatles, Stones and later his favourite band The Eagles. However Luke was unusually interested in country music at a very early age and listened to and played the songs of Hank Williams, Hank Snow, Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatts, Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Elvis, Buddy Holly, and The Everly brothers and later artistes such as Waylon Jennings, Kriss Krisstoferson, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard.

By his mid teens, he was playing drums and singing harmony in a local country/rock band led by Andy Berry, who also taught him his first chords, on a guitar Luke had made at school. Luke’s singing career had now begun. He was getting noticed on the music scene and it was not long before local musicians from Brian Munro’s “Union Pacific”, approached Luke to front the band while Brian took a break due to illness. Luke remembers well his first songs with the band; You Win Again and Ring of Fire.

After several months Brian was able to return, and at this point Luke formed his own outfit, going out as “The Renegades”, with Keith Shilcock and John Mansell. He later worked with a variety of musicians to make up the band including Carl Barnwell from “Mathews Southern Comfort”, Pick Withers From “Dire Straits” and members of Charlie Dore’s “Back Pocket Band”, including Keith Nelson a multi talented session player who instigated Luke’s song writing.