Nick Duerden’s talked to 50 pop stars about life when the big time’s behind you

“There they were, with cheekbones and confidence, everything ahead of them and their wildest dreams came true.” But how do people readjust when the party’s over? Nick Duerden’s book ‘Exit Stage Left: the Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars’ is a fascinating, sobering read. Bob Geldof started trying to rig chart return shops. Viv Albertine said it was like “the end of a marriage”. Eddie Tenpole found success gave him the love he never got from his mother. Tony James had built a cartoon character he couldn’t live up to. Billy Bragg reinvented himself. Don McLean found “the sweet spot”. And all of them discovered that “no-one likes a pop star in mid-life”. This terrific pod tells some extraordinary stories - the resurrection of the Only Ones, the crippling debt of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, the indignities of Kevin Rowland, the strange predicaments of Robbie Williams and Natalie Merchant, and the full chapter and verse on the collapse of Suzanne Vega’s catastrophic world tour.
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