Marc Almond
Marc Almond
Peter Mark Sinclair "Marc" Almondis an English singer-songwriter and musician. Almond first began performing and recording in the synthpop/new wave duo Soft Cell. He has also had a diverse career as a solo artist. His collaborations include a duet with Gene Pitney on the 1989 UK number one single "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart". Almond has sold over 30 million records worldwide...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth9 July 1957
ideas clothes shifting
I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.
albums chance late
I thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?
song thinking world
I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"
song self albums
Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.
force situation
I like situations that force me to rethink things.
artist people albums
What was great about the 80s was that you still had record companies who would get behind developing you as an artist. You had these bonkers heads of department and A&R people who, even after a flop album, would let you make another one.
adventure care wanted
I don't care much about success or anything like that. I've only ever wanted life to be an adventure.
thinking people want
I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.
persons
I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.
song queens adventure
A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.
girl art eye
I was quite naïve, a boy from Southport. When I went to art college in Leeds, I lived in a basement flat, and I heard clunking on the stairs all night, and I thought it was just nurses going to work on the night shift at the local hospital! Then I found out it was all working girls upstairs. I suppose I came from a protected background and had my eyes opened wide by that side of city life.
writing thinking people
People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about.
past thinking old-things
I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.
summer art college
I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer.