Strange- Punks and Drunks and Flicks and Kicks. [ click here for excerpts ]

Richard Strange. Musician, composer, nightclub host, actor, writer and adventurer, was born in January 1951.

Since his proto-punk rock band The Doctors of Madness was first unleashed on an uncomprehending public in 1975, he has been a Zelig-like figure whose presence has been felt in every corner of London's cultural life. He founded the hugely influential mixed-media Cabaret Futura in 1980, and has made films with Tim Burton, Neil Jordan and Martin Scorsese. He wrote music for contemporary dance companies in the eighties and was European editor of the avant-garde Art Line magazine. He toured the world in a Russian Hamlet and appeared in several episodes of the highly successful Men Behaving Badly. For two seemingly endless years he played a snooty English butler in Gottschalks HausParty, an appalling German TV show.

His rumbustious and unpredictable life has led him to cross paths with characters as diverse as The Sex Pistols and Princess Diana, John Cleese, Grace Jones and Damien Hirst.

He declares ,'My generation feels like we invented everything in the World. Sex, the protest movement, environmentalism, feminism, the Media and drugs. In fact- we probably did.'

For Strange, no cow is too sacred to be kicked. Strange-Punks and Drunks and Flicks and Kicks irreverently and hilariously chronicles how the world was, at the front-line of popular culture, in the second half of the twentieth century.