Robyn Hitchcock

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Hitchcock, Robyn (2 Mar 1953 - )

Hitchcock is a singer and recording artist, well known in the United Kingdom, and a performer in the United States and elsewhere.

Luca Ferrari’s Robyn Hitchcock: A Middle Class Hero (Italy, 2000, text in English and Italian) includes an interview, a full discography, and a three-song compact disk that includes “Ring Them Bones,” “Take This in Remembrance,” and “Eerie Green Storm Lantern.” His other works include "Storefront Hitchcock"; "The Soft Boys: A Can of Bees"; "The Soft Boys: Invisible Hits"; "Groovy Decoy"; "Eye"; "Invisible Hitchcock"; "Fegmania!"; "Element of Light"; "Gotta Let This Hen Out!"; "Respect"; and "If You Were A Priest".

In an e-mailed interview with Martina Hemming, Hitchcock was asked about religion and responded:

I would describe myself as a person. I am religious but worship no deity.

I believe that life passes through us, rather than the reverse. We spend our lives becoming what is disposed of in an instant: a match struck over the Atlantic on a dark night. Life is eternal, we aren't. But that bit of us that is of Life will never perish. It animates whatever comes next. I suspect that when we die, we each receive a print-out of the life we have just finished; and that this in some way determines where our Energies go next. I wonder how Hitler felt when he opened his envelope. It is fairly unlikely that the personality, the memory or the consciousness, survive death; given how much time we spend building and inhabiting them; this is pretty tragic. Although, given the length of eternity, maybe not. The universe (as a fabric of space and time) is probably onion-shaped. There is no more an end or a beginning to it than there is to the horizon, which plays its own part in the myth of the straight line. But we are, as yet, finite creatures, and infinity is as remote from us as Richard Gere is from Cleopatra.

{WAS, Celebrities in Hell, 2001}