@Fernapple His family were irish immigrants and lived in a two bedroom flat in the east end of London, his father was a builder mate and did contract work on construction sites and oil rigs.
My point being he was working class by birth but from the age of 19 has been a well paid, rich personality and (sort of) musician who made a living by being fucking outrageous and a professional rebel.
To still be calling himself working call at 64 is laughable, the only working class job he ever had was as a minicab driver for 5 minutes when he was 17.