SEX, DEATH, AND THE REAL OF LIFE (OR F***ING COMFORT) (w/ Barry Taylor)

In this interview, Barry Taylor opens up about the origin of his biographical book “Sex, God, and Rock N’ Roll”, emphasising that his publishers wanted that title, but he wanted the title “Fucking Comfort”. However, the themes of sex, god and music do feature throughout the book as meta-themes, with the sexual focused on family, life, and romance, drugs focused on what stimulates and captivates or interest and attention, and art focused on the creative bits and pieces of life. He emphasises that he wanted to write his biography as fragments as opposed to an over-arching scheme, because our life unfolds and is disrupted in fragments that can only be narrativised retroactively.

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