1), "Bedsitter" (UK No. [51], Almond's next solo album, Chaos and a Dancing Star, also written with Braide, was released January 2020. Never staying with one group or record label for too long, Marc would perform with acts like Marc and the Mambas, Bronski Beat, Sex Gang Children, Current 93, and others. It also won the best-single award of 1981 at the first Brit Awards. Adding to the disjointed recording process was the fact that during recording Almond also spent several weeks attending a treatment centre in Canterbury for addiction to prescription drugs. As I listen to his cautionary tale of rock-and-roll excess I grip the sides of my chair and try not to look too startled. Their lives were transformed in 1981 by their third single, an irresistible synthpop cover of a Northern soul song, originally by Bolan’s girlfriend Gloria Jones. “I used to look at photographs of myself as a child and think: ‘Have I let you down?’ ” he says. Almond signed to EMI and released the album The Stars We Are in 1988. [23] Near death and in a coma for weeks, he suffered two huge blood clots and had to undergo emergency surgery twice. I thought of Soft Cell as a dark, arty band. Later that year, Almond played a lavish one-off show at the Royal Albert Hall in London, which featured an orchestra and dancers as he performed material from his entire career. Reed states that he has written 15 songs for the project commenting that Against Nature is "still probably one of the most decadent books ever written" and that Almond had always wanted to perform it, stating that "now we're both jaded aesthetes we could do it". He signed to half a dozen record labels, reinventing himself variously as a Latin, jazz or R&B artist, a torch singer and even a Vegas crooner. While best known for his work with Soft Cell, he has also found success with solo projects and collaborations. I tell him that he makes me feel as though I’ve lead a very dull life indeed. The Cast of One Tree Hill, 10 Reasons Why Kaitlyn Bristowe and Shawn Evans Will Never Make It. Was it masochism? “Sleaze” is a word that crops up frequently in Soft Cell’s press cuttings. The album was a tribute to Russian singer Vadim Kozin, who was exiled to the gulags of the Arctic Circle. But we speak through legal people about Soft Cell things. The show was recorded and released as the CD and video 12 Years of Tears.[16]. Each time I realised there was something horribly wrong with each new situation – me.’ He stutters as he says this, and he pronounces Rs as Ws. [43] This was followed by The Dancing Marquis album, made with a number of collaborators including Jarvis Cocker, Carl Barât and Jools Holland, featuring production from Tony Visconti on some tracks. [37] Anohni has stated that Torment and Toreros was her favourite album throughout her teens and that it became the starting point for Antony and the Johnsons. ), Marc assures us that, even if this turns out to be his last album, he won’t be retiring. I like my life’s balance. I don’t have any animosity towards him now. [20] The album was produced by musician/arranger Andrei Samsonov. document.write(new Date().getFullYear()); Some of his earliest musical influences were more expressive and artistic performers like David Bowie. They filmed each other. ‘I’m a shy extrovert, but I think that’s quite common, isn’t it? A 1984 interviewer found him reading the Marquis de Sade, inspiration for the Soft Cell album, This Last Night in Sodom. [31] The award was presented to Almond by Anohni who flew from New York for the occasion.[32]. However, that is simply not the case with this artist. They had a succession of hits and Almond developed an addiction to spending money: £500,000 on drugs alone. [24], In 2008 and 2009, Almond toured with Jools Holland throughout the UK as well as guesting at shows by Current 93, Baby Dee and a tribute show to the late folk singer Sandy Denny at the Festival Hall. However, perhaps his single greatest talent is a natural talent for performing. Whatever Happened to All the Actors from the Movie Parenthood? Marc Almond of Soft Cell in a studio in London in June 1982. ‘Pop is very disposable by nature and so are pop stars,’ he says with an uneven grin. alt.folklore.urban FAQ at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/folklore-faq/part4/ Almond is also known for his highly successful collaborations. I think homosexuality is genetic but there are still doubts.’, In the late Eighties, Almond took to visiting female prostitutes. Everything2 ™ is brought to you by Everything2 Media, LLC. [27] In October 2009, Almond released his second album of Russian Romances and Gypsy songs in an album titled Orpheus in Exile. Analysis of Marc Almond’s character is problematic, in that, once you have digested the things he says about himself you struggle for anything more insightful to add. And though he barely coped at all, at least he didn’t kill himself through a drug overdose, a sexually transmitted disease or, in one of those fits of romantic anguish that pop stars are prone to, a suicide attempt. “That’s what I thought London was,” he says. On another occasion, while recording in Bavaria, he developed a craving for sushi and, unable to find a sushi restaurant nearby, flew back to London for the night – ‘When you have to have sushi you have to have it.’ Accountants were despatched to devise saving schemes that would prevent Almond getting his hands on his money. Much of Fantastic Star was originally recorded in New York with Mike Thorne, but later after signing to Mercury, was reworked in London. You don’t turn up for your TV performances. "Black Kiss", "Tragedy" and "My Love" were the singles from the album Open All Night. In 1982, Almond formed Marc and the Mambas as an offshoot project from Soft Cell. He moved constantly from house to house and school to school around the north-west of England and, wherever he ended up, he was bullied – often chased by gangs of boys chanting the word ‘queer’ at him, before catching him and beating him up. ‘Haven’t seen him for years and there is no chance of a reconciliation. I never set out to write for kids. And sure enough, I found a long list of musical stars who have been associated with this rumour over the years.Those star-studded swallowers are: Elton John, Rod Stewart, David Lee Roth, Marc Almond, David Bowie, Jeff Beck, Jon Bon Jovi, Andy Bell of Erasure, the drummer for Bon Jovi, the lead singer for New Kids on the Block, the Bay City Rollers (all of them! By his own estimation he is an emotionally immature, chippy, bitchy, self-pitying neurotic who is addicted to everything, frustrated, self-flagellating, self-destructive and narcissistic. Almond also recorded a session for the album with John Cale, David Johanson, and Chris Spedding; some made the final cut. “Tainted Love” was a mighty international hit, spending a record 43 consecutive weeks in the US singles charts. During his time at art college, he did a series of performance theatre pieces: Zazou, Glamour in Squalor, Twilights and Lowlifes, as well as Andy Warhol inspired mini-movies.
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