Gary Kemp

He is the older brother of Martin Kemp and brother-in-law of Shirlie Kemp. The brothers trained at the Anna Scher Theatre School. Their contemporaries included Phil Daniels , Linda Robson and Pauline Quirke.

He became famous as the guitarist, songwriter and occasional synthesizer player of Spandau Ballet , one of Britains biggest bands of the 1980s.

His biggest hit, "True", was directly influenced by his love of Marvin Gaye and Al Green. The lyrics were delicately influenced by Vladimir Nabokov s novel Lolita. It was later sampled for the PM Dawn hit "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss".

The first album he bought was T. Rex s "Electric Warrior".

The first band he saw was Slade when he was 11.

The first single he bought was "Apeman" by The Kinks.

His band Spandau Ballet won the Sony Award For Technical Excellence in 1984 following the worldwide success of their album "True", which was one of the biggest albums of 1983.

He has two sons, Finlay Munro Kemp (born September 20th 1990) with Sadie Frost , and Milo Wolf Kemp (born July 14th 2004) with Lauren Barber.

He has only one kidney while his brother Martin has three.

Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just,before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music,had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed.

Why do I find it hard to write the next line?,We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star. .