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
eyebrows long platforms
Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.
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.
teenage school broken
I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school.
song moving writing
I can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I'm a seaside boy and whenever I go there, I find myself writing songs about it.
ideas clothes shifting
I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.
today way generations
A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.
growing-up let-it-go way
Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and you kind of grow up and let it go behind you.
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.
i-can
There's no such thing as 'I can't do it'.
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.
writing thinking people
People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about.
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.
albums chance late
I thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?