Sessions-and Baby-Food

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Sex & Drugs & Sausage Rolls
Sex & Drugs & Sausage Rolls

By Graham Garrett and Cat Black

Published 2015

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When you come off a tour it’s an Anticlimax

“I’d been chased by mobs clamouring for us, and played massive venues every night in Russia for three-and-a-half-months.”

When I got home I’d stick the telly on and there was Billy Joel live in Leningrad. I’ve played there, in the same stadium.

So when you come back you can get into a weird frame of mind. It’s so exciting seeing people again, until you’re back, because that euphoria you were expecting doesn’t really exist. The thought of coming back and seeing people is much better and stronger than the reality. Terry used to equate it with being an astronaut. He wondered what it would have been like to be Buzz Aldrin or Neil Armstrong, going up there and coming back. I used to say, “We’ve been on tour Terry, we haven’t been to the fucking moon.” But everybody else is not part of what you’ve done, so it’s always a real anticlimax. All of a sudden I was at home and with no release for this adrenalin.