Andy Partridge
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Partridge, Andy (11 Nov 1953 - )
Partridge is a songwriter and recording artist, the lead singer of XTC. He has been called “the disobedient child of the music industry” by Rifff (June 1997), a publication which added,
- He smiled during the punk movement. He won't tour. He rarely grants interviews. He cries over chord progressions. He hates stardom and the limelight, and spits them out like warm beer. Though he finds his hometown of Swindon, England, a continual affront to his sensibilities—he swears he's a prisoner there—it's where he leads his fairly normal life. From this steady post, he's been cranking out 20 years' worth of sparkling pop.”
“Basically, I don’t believe in God,” Partridge told an interviewer. “I don’t think there’s a stately British actor in a white sheet looking down on us all and deciding that you’re going to get run over, and you’re going to win the pool.” Heaven and Hell are states of mind, he holds but adds, “If you can create heaven for yourself without creating hell for somebody else, fine. That’s a good enough code. Try and create heaven for somebody else as well, but don’t create hell for anyone ’cos that’s less than animal.”
Partridge lives where he was raised, in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. He and his ex-wife Marianne have two children: daughter Holly, a guitarist, singer and songwriter for Britpop group The SheBeats, and son Harry.
