The autobiography of the eighties pop star Marc Almond. An intimate portrait of the star-making abilities of eighties personalities and the frank story of rising from a fall from commercial grace to rebuild a new career with dignity, and living life in a world of rumours, some cultivated, many not.

Tainted Life

Almond, Marc

Biographies & Memoirs

SIDGWICK JACKSON

Once the days of his youth were over, singer-songwriter Marc Almond set out to pursue the same thrills, spills, and bellyaches that made each day of his youth memorable. In this volume, he is an observant guide to a world that he was once master of.

In Search of the Pleasure Palace: Disreputable Travels

Arts & Literature

Pan/Macmillan

Marc Almond's story features a larger than life cast of characters. It recounts his "de rigeur" plunge into drink, drugs, and debauchery as well as being an intimate portrait of the star-making personalities of the 1980s.

Tainted Life: The Autobiography

Humor & Entertainment

Once the days of his youth were over, singer-songwriter Marc Almond set out to pursue the same thrills, spills, and bellyaches that made each day of his youth memorable. In this volume, he is an observant guide to a world that he was once master of.

Sports & Outdoors

The Angel of Death in the Adonis Lounge: Poems

Heretic Books

'What happens to people like me who were once "pop" stars? Am I destined for a life of daytime television appearances, reunion tours and well-meaning strangers struggling to recognize me before hesitatingly asking "didn't you use to be Marc Almond?"' Despite an impending 45th birthday, a milestone age that can often result in some sort of mid-life crisis, Marc Almond, singer and songwriter, is not quite ready to take his place on the 'they were once famous' line-up. In Search of the Pleasure Palace, is Marc Almond's search for meaning in life now that he is in the Indian summer of his career. In this rollercoaster journey, Marc goes in pursuit of the thrills, spills and bellyaches that made each day of his youth memorable and created an image of him that was decadent, debauched and worryingly misunderstood. From swingers nights in Henley-on-Thames to the lost absinthe bars of Barcelona, from Russia's surreal underbelly to the pre-Giuliani clean-up of New York, Marc is your observant guide to a world that he was once master of -- through fantastic, wry anecdote.

Travel

Pan.

Marc Almond's writing - verse and prose - concentrates on the city, the night, red light and low life, the same scenes which appear in his lyrics. 'Prostitutes, hustlers, porn stars, strippers, gangsters, pimps, dominatrixes, transsexuals, madams, sub-culture celebrities, superstars...' He burst into prominence in the early 1980s with Dave Ball with the first successful British electro-duo - Soft Cell. They mixed disco and northern soul with lyrics of melancholy stories of low-life characters, bedsit life and city survival, and thus set the blueprint for groups such as The Pet Shop Boys, Blur, Pulp and Suede. Marc spent the 1980s producing a range of albums, always surprising and taking his audience in new directions. Dirt and glitter continue to be common themes in his work, as are the love and romance and loneliness of city life and the hopes, dreams and unfulfilled aspirations of the city's inhabitants, from the bordello to the high-rise.

Beautiful Twisted Night

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Ellipsis London Pr Ltd

A new collection of poetry and prose inspired by New York City, with a series of extraordinary photomontages and a CD on which the author reads his work, The End of New York will appeal to all Marc's fans and to anyone interested in the city's sexual subcultures. With a cast list of addicts, hustlers, go-go dancers, and locations in the clubs and lounges of the city, this is at once a violent, sleazy and glamorous world. A necessary publication for Marc Almond fans. Spoken-word CD available only with this book. Eight color photomontages specially commissioned for this publication.

The End of New York

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Tainted Life

In Search of the Pleasure Palace: Disreputable Travels

Tainted Life: The Autobiography

In Search of the Pleasure Palace: Disreputable Travels

The Angel of Death in the Adonis Lounge: Poems

In Search of the Pleasure Palace: Disreputable Travels

Beautiful Twisted Night

The End of New York