Kirk Brandon
| Kirk Brandon | |
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London 2012
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| Background information | |
| Born |
3 August 1956 Westminster, London |
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| Occupation(s) | Musician |
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| Years active | 1980–present |
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| Website | kirkbrandon.com |
Kirk Brandon (born 3 August 1956, Westminster, London) is an English musician best known as the leader of the bands Theatre of Hate and Spear of Destiny.
As a boy, Kirk Brandon attended Churston Ferrers Grammar School in Devon. In 1987, Brandon contracted Reiter’s syndrome and could not walk for more than a year. Brandon was married in 1994 to a Danish woman, Christina. Shortly after he was declared bankrupt.
In 1997, Brandon sued the singer Boy George for malicious falsehood and lost. George revealed details of his love for Brandon and their romantic and sexual affair in his 1995 autobiography Take It Like A Man. Brandon claimed that stories about the gay affair in the early 1980s damaged his career as a musician. He also objected to the lyrics of a Boy George song, "Unfinished Business", which apparently were aimed at him: "I hear you married a Danish girl ... You break your promise easily ... You lie, you lie, you lie. Yeah tough guy, you know exactly what I mean." Brandon demanded damages from Boy George, George's publishers, Sidgwick and Jackson, and also Virgin Records and EMI Virgin Music Publishing. The judge ruled in favour of the defendants, and ordered Brandon to pay some of their legal costs.
In January 2008, Brandon sued GlaxoSmithKline UK over personal injuries as a result of taking the anti-depressant drug Seroxat. Brandon had heart surgery in 2011. He was a tutor at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music in 2012.
Brandon was portrayed by the actor Richard Madden in the 2010 television film Worried About The Boy, a dramatisation of Boy George's rise to fame in the early 1980s.
Brandon's music career started in 1978, in Clapham, south London, with the formation of punk group The Pack, in which he was the singer and songwriter.
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