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Marcus Gray
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That Marcus Gray? Truly, he is a Renaissance Man. When not painting the ceiling that never ends, fixing the toilet that never mends,
Marcus Gray, Jäger-Passage, Hamburg, 1961. You should have been there. (Photo by Julio Grasias.)
cooking nourishing one-pot vegetarian meals, improvising tuneless music hall ditties to 'entertain' his young son, and assembling subtly unnerving anti-fashion ensembles from Gap, TK Maxx and War on Want... he somehow still finds the time to write.
Note this well, though, Auntie Doreen: he is not an erotic artist, nor has he ever been.
He was raised in the Original Richmond, was sort of educated in Hull, was sold into the book trade in Charing Cross Road, was pilloried in Stockwell, was sometimes high and sometimes low in Muswell Hill, was outclassed in Hampstead, starry-eyed in Cricklewood, stuck in Gateshead, turned off in Heaton, paupered and pissed off in Kings Cross, slightly too hip for Russell Square, unappreciated in Clapham, running on empty in Stoke Newington, alternately energised and bogged down in Sparkhill, and ultimately exiled to Belfast.
Gray is the author of the following publications (more information to come):
Route 19 Revisited: the Clash and London Calling
Last Gang in Town: the Story and Myth of the Clash
It Crawled from the South: an R.E.M. Companion
London's Rock Landmarks
There should have been more, but don't encourage him to bore you about the ones that got away. Or why. Marcus Gray is aware that, in a bibliography comprising just four titles, two books about the Clash is probably at least one book about the Clash too many. In a belated bid to avoid typecasting, he has resolved never to write about the Clash again. Recently, he made this clear to a prospective new agent. 'OK', replied the agent. 'How about a biography of Joe Strummer, post-Clash?'
Gray currently looks after his own affairs.
News of forthcoming projects to follow.
Contact: info@marcusgray.co.uk
His younger brother is Jules Gray, the Singing Brakeman:
