British - Musician | October 16, 1959 -
Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.
Gary Kemp
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I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.
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For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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Your life is the same wherever you go.
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Pop music should be about young people.
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It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.
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I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.
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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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