"My worst time on drink and drugs was early years, pre-16." Did he do class-A drugs? "I really don't want to go into details. He left school at 15 and started hanging with the bad boys. "Well, you know, he's a Sandhurst boy." he says.Īfter his parents divorced he didn't see his father for 12 years.
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Was his father as militaristic as his mother had portrayed him? I do a screaming Full Metal Jacket impression - " Adams! Get down for breakfast, you son of a bitch !" You're here talking to me, but actually it's not you who should be here, there's nothing wrong with you. "One day the psychiatrist said to me: 'Bryan, I want you to know something. His father hated the thought of Adams becoming a musician, and tried to beat the dream out of him. I would literally lock the door, put my records on and play guitar, and just not talk to them because they were freaks." I wasn't talking to them." Why not? "Because they were always arguing with each other. My parents sent me there because I didn't dig them. Is it true that he was sent to a psychiatrist three times a week when he was 12? "I don't remember going three times a week. Adams grew up in a variety of countries - Canada, Britain, Israel, Portugal, Korea, Japan. His father, a former military man turned UN diplomat was always on the move.
I just never thought it was unusual." In her divorce papers his mother wrote: "He would chase him around the house brandishing any weapon that came to hand, shoe stick, belt with buckle, tools." Adams claims his mother exaggerated. "I mean, like, having a smack is not something that was particularly unusual growing up. "I mean it was never done in a way." Adams stutters. I tell him I'm confused because his mother was quoted as saying that she divorced his father because he was violent. This is the first time I've spoken about it." The more he talks, the more it emerges that there was little to correct. I don't know where it came from." Really? "Yeah, absolutely." Did you demand an apology? "No, I never reply to things like that. "You've got a very Sun version of what my life was like. "My father's a character." He sounded like an abuser. Your father sounded like a monster, I say. I've never seen the subject referred to since, but I'm surprised when he talks with warmth about his dad. I had come across an old story claiming that Adams had had a horrific childhood, and had been beaten regularly by his father. He talks about the importance of family in more general terms, and how he would like his parents, both of whom are English, to come back and live in England. "I used to bring my record in and they'd say, 'Great, we'll put it out.' It was nice to know that it was a family." He says he doesn't feel as if he belongs anywhere. Why it has taken him so long - is he edging away from music? "That's a very deep question, isn't it?" When he started out at A&M, his record company, it was tiny, and now it has been swallowed by big companies who have been swallowed by even bigger companies. She was very nice to me, made me comfortable."Īdams, 42, has just released his first new record in four years - the soundtrack to the animated film Spirit. Everybody asks that question." OK, then, was she a cock or a not-cock? "Not cock. What was she like? "It's very hard to say. I tell him I liked his portrait of the Queen. Recently, he has enjoyed a second career as a celebrity photographer, and earlier this year snapped the Queen for her golden jubilee. "I never see it like that." I ask him if there is anything he still wants to achieve in music. ".Changed people's perception of me?" Yes, did the song turn him into boring Bryan? "Perhaps, yeah," he says. Everybody around the world got that song."īut did it become an albatross in that it changed. "How could it be an albatross? It's a moving piece of music and it's international. Has the song become an albatross? He looks astonished. After Everything I Do his name became shorthand for a certain kind of gloopy naffness. Perhaps Adams has been a victim of his own success. He seems wary, defensive, suspicious of questions. Did he tell Conley he was a cock? "No, you're going to tell him for me." He speaks in short, stabbing sentences. He looked so unhappy to be there as the prop for Conley's lousy jokes. Last week I saw him interviewed on the Brian Conley show. "He'll be fine with tea," the big BA says quietly, decisively. Hey, I'm going to enjoy this! Rock'n'roll!! But it turns out that he's joking. The Big BA asks if I'd like a glass of wine. On the table in front of us there is an unopened box of chocolates and bottle of wine.
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