Editing Kevin Shields (section)

==Early life==
Kevin Patrick Shields was born on 21 May 1963&nbsp;in Jamaica Hospital in [[Queens]], New York City, United States.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Guglielmi|first1=Federico|title=Grande Enciclopedia Rock|year=2002|publisher=Giunti Editore|isbn=978-88-09-02852-4|page=563}}</ref><ref name="bv">{{cite web|url=http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2013/10/an_interview_wi_86.html|title=An interview with Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine|publisher=[[BrooklynVegan]]|last=Pearis|first=Bill|date=29 October 2013|access-date=10 November 2013}}</ref> He is the eldest of five siblings born to Irish parents; his mother was a nurse and his father was an executive in the food industry. Shields' parents had emigrated from Ireland to the United States in the 1950s, when the couple were teenagers. Shields attended Christ the King, a [[Roman Catholic]] primary school which he described as "a really horrible school run by psychopathic nuns".<ref name="bh">{{cite interview|last=North |first=Aaron |title=Kevin Shields: The Buddyhead Interview |work=[[Buddyhead Records|Buddyhead]] |url=http://www.buddyhead.com/music/kevinshields/ |location=New York City |date=19 January 2005 |access-date=30 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050408040110/http://www.buddyhead.com/music/kevinshields/ |archive-date=8 April 2005 }}</ref> They lived in [[Flushing, Queens|Flushing]], a neighbourhood in north-central Queens,<ref name="bv" /> relocating to [[Commack, New York|Commack]], [[Long Island]], when Shields was four, where he lived until the age of ten.<ref name="sf">{{cite interview|last=Shields|first=Kevin|interviewer=[[Ian Svenonius]]|title=Soft Focus: Kevin Shields|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/kevin-shields/|work=Soft Focus|publisher=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]|location=London|date=10 December 2007|access-date=10 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110013718/http://www.vice.com/en_uk/soft-focus/kevin-shields|archive-date=10 November 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1973, Shields moved to [[Dublin]], Ireland, with his parents and siblings due to financial conditions and in order to remain close to their extended family.<ref name="bh" />

Shields was raised in [[Cabinteely]], a suburb in Dublin's [[Southside, Dublin|Southside]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hotpress.com/music/interviews/Valentine-Days/416413.html|title=Valentines Day &#124; Music &#124; Interviews|work=[[Hot Press]]|publisher=Osnovina|last=Mulkearns|first=Helena|date=10 August 1989|access-date=10 November 2013}} {{subscription required}}</ref> He has described the experience of moving to Ireland as a [[culture shock]], "going from, as far as I was concerned, the modern world to some distant past."<ref name="c4">{{cite interview|last=Shields|first=Kevin|interviewer=[[Paul Lester]]|title=Kevin Shields interview|work=Transmission|publisher=[[Channel 4]]|location=London|year=1990}}</ref> According to Shields, the main difference between the US and Ireland that affected him was the attitude towards music culture: "[in the US] there was no ''[[Top of the Pops]]'', there was nothing like that, there was no [[MTV]]; and over in [Ireland], everything was completely catered to for teenagers." He said that the change was "what got [him] into music in a really big way."<ref name="c4" />