On one song, 50,000, he sings about the deaths of rock stars, inspired by the passing of Motörhead’s Lemmy, David Bowie and Prince, as well as his friend the actor Alan Rickman, in quick succession.
“If you sit at home, you get anxious, but that anxiety is a sort of engine for you.
It intrigues me that great success is this brilliant light, but also every brilliant light creates a dark shadow.
‘It was a strange time because you think that these people are immortal, but then suddenly they’re like the rest of us, they die.