Book description
'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
hestitatingly asking "didn't you used to be Marc Almond?"'
Despite turning 45, 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 quest 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,
outrageous and worryingly misunderstood.
Almond's vivid and often wittily acerbic pen candidly records insights
about his thoughts, the nature of being who he is, his often bizarre
lifetyle and the places he visits as he attempts to navigate a course
through mid-life. From swingers' nights in Croydon to the lost haunts of
Barcelona, from Russia's surreal underbelly to the pre-Giuliani clean-up
of New York, Marc is your observant guide to a world he was once part of
and few of us have access to - through fantastic, wry anecdote. Marc
Almond is a singer, songwriter and performer. His work with Dave Ball as
Soft Cell led to 10 million record sales, including a string of
international hits including the classic 'Tainted Love' (which still
holds the record for spending the most weeks in the US Top 100). As a
solo artist Marc has recorded over nine albums.
