Name	Gary Kemp
Age	50
Height	6'  (183 cm)
Date of Birth	October 16, 1959
Birthplace	Islington, London
Star Sign	Libra
Nationality	English
Occupation	Actor
Celebrity Index	Ga
Claim to Fame	guitar player and chief songwriter for the 1980s New Romantic band Spandau Ballet
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Quotes

Your life is the same wherever you go.

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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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It has been a terrible affair for ourselves and our families and one that I`m sure was obviously going to destroy any hope of us making music again.

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But when you`re an actor, you`re a very small part in a machine. They`re not your words. It`s almost like being a session musician.

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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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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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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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Pop music should be about young people.

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"Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you`re just a tool for someone`s ideas."

"I like a band with sex and attitude. Coldplay and Travis do nothing for me."

"Kevin Costner told me that `True` was his and his wife`s song. I`m not sure if that`s a good thing because they split up soon after."

"I think that Will Young is this generation`s Des O`Connor or Max Bygraves. Where is the sex, drama and outrage in music anymore?"

"I can`t get away from `True`. It`s been played 3 million times on American radio."

"Spandau Ballet is a brand name. Part of me never wants to do it again. Part of me is fascinated of what it would be like. Becuase we spent the most amazing time together."

Trivia

Son Finlay Munro Kemp (born September 20th 1990) with Sadie Frost.

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Son Milo Wolf Kemp (born July 14th 2004) with Lauren Barber.

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Spandau Ballet won the Sony Award For Technical Excellence in 1984.

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"True" was directly influenced by his love of Marvin Gaye and Al Green. The lyrics were delicately influenced by Nabokov`s novel, Lolita.

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The first single he bought was "Apeman" by The Kinks.

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The first band he saw was Slade when he was 11.

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The first album he bought was T-Rex`s "Electric Warrior".

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His song "True" was sampled for the P.M. Dawn hit "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss".

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Guitarist, songwriter and sometimes the synthesizer player of Spandau Ballet.

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Former co-leader of the band Spandau Ballet.

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Brother of Martin Kemp

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See also Trivia Index (G) :: Quotes Index (G) :: Connections Index (G)

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• Gary Kemp and Sadie Frost

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