Stephen king interview neil gaiman biography

At 16 it was and I was a punk. I talked three school friends into forming a band called XXX – I was the singer and songwriter.

I was… ‘blossoming’ is the wrong word but I was moving out of geeky.

Stephen king interview neil gaiman biography

Many years later I went to a recording of a BBC Radio 4 comedy and I ran into Steve Punt afterwards. He said: “Oh, you’re Neil Gaiman!’ So I waited for him to say, my kids loved Coraline and instead he said: “I was at your gig.” I saw this little moment of starry eyes.

I wish I could go back and give that moment to the teenage Neil doing his first gig in the school hall. And I wish I could also tell the young Neil, who eventually gave up all fantasies of rock stardom, that there will be weird times in the future when he’ll be onstage in Tasmania reading his poetry to an audience with a backing band which includes David Byrne.

Or that he’ll sell