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Nine years ago I discovered I had stage 3/4 uterine cancer and went through nine months of excruciating surgery, illness and chemotherapy. In that time, I touched death and it was the most powerful transformation of my life. I was forced to learn to take care of my body.
I had quite a chequered childhood. I had a knife put to my throat once when I was a kid, which was very scary.
A trip to a Macedonian refugee camp that I switched out of, to go at a later date. Those who took my place were killed in a horrific car accident.
Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.
One Nation Under a Groove, by Funkadelic.
In 1975, I watched the film Stardust, and Adam Faith said, “I supply the birds, the pills and the pot.” And I thought, “I want that.”
The 12 years I spent in receivership. That was me being a dick. I lost the court case when I wanted to sack my management and had to pay them £120,000. I said, “I am not paying you, because I should have won.”
Beverley Knight, Andi Oliver, Rita Wilson, Bryan Adams, Carl Barât, Michael Stipe
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