𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗛𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟: 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗠𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗟𝗞𝗢'𝗦 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘

🎉✨On this special day let's do a retrospective of some 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨'𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬. Enjoy the ride dear Soulmates! 🥳💝✨🎊

Photo credits at the end of the text.

🔹𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐘 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 & 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎🔹

🎤 "Well I grew up in a place called Luxembourg, which is a very boring place, and I went to the American School of Luxembourg with a ridiculously tall guy called Stefan Olsdal. He was very tall, he was playing basketball and I was very small. I was into drama, so I was a loser, so we never spoke to each other and then I went to London at seventeen and started college. He played in a school band with a chubby Swede called Robert Schultzberg and then years later Stefan and I bumped into each other on a tube station in London and he was studying music at the time. I was doing a little acoustic gig one night and he came down and we talked and discovered that we had much more in common than we had ever imagined. We started playing around with a four-track f*cked up old keyboards making music that was atonal and instrumental and stuff. We wanted to form a punk band, so we when Robert
came over in October `94 we wrote some stuff together as a band that was the start of Placebo basically."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚂𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜, 1997.

🎤" Basically, there are few very important bands for me, like maybe two. When I was sixteen I heard Sonic Youth for the first time and they blew my head off and changed my life really and that was just as I started to play guitar. They sort of opened up so many possibilities and they acted as a sort of trampoline. I explored bands that influenced them from the Stooges the New Wave scene and through The Joy Division and The Fall and Post punk particularly and then when I was in college I heard PJ Harvey for the first time. At that point I decided I wanted to make music that carried a similar kind of emotional weight and a similar kind of fragility and vulnerability and humanity."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚂𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜, 1997.

🎸 𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐨𝐲 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 1995
https://youtu.be/1OjF7LBFqcA

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🔹𝐌𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐃𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐃 𝐁𝐎𝐖𝐈𝐄🔹

🎤" My most recent most favoured treasured (memory) was being onstage at the Brit Awards with David Bowie, the two of us playing guitar and singing in harmony with each other-that was a real 'pinch me, I'm dreaming' situation. We weren't too bad, we were in the right key at least-but we could never really get the lyrics right. We were doing '20th century Boy'. We had a f***ing laugh."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙼𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝙼𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚛, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 1999.

⭐20𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐁𝐨𝐲 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭. 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 1999 + 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰
https://youtu.be/_90EbhyUEVs

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🔹𝐀𝐂𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐕𝐄𝐓 𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐄🔹

🎤"We came to be involved in the "Velvet Goldmine" soundtrack through myself getting a role in the film. I was cast as a singer that was in a fictitious band that played "20th Century Boy" in the film, so we suggested that we record a cover for the soundtrack. Then Steve and Stef got roles in the film as well, and it just kind of snowballed from that first phone call. I was a very, very big Todd Haynes fan anyway so when I showed up for the audition I just went, "I'll do anything just let me be in your movie," and it kind of worked out. The first time we performed "20th Century Boy," it was the first day of filming. It was the first [scene shot], and the audience was Ewan McGregor and Michael Stipe. We were kind of crapping ourselves, shall we say, but we did it well. I think it's one of the high points in the movie. [...] But there's a lot of waiting around in shooting a movie, and it was kind of like a very long video shoot. We made some really good friends and we had a great time. Anytime you can go to the movies and see yourself, it's kind of a strange feeling.
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙼𝚃𝚅, 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘.

🎥 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐕𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐭 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞
https://youtu.be/OwTuZHMKt6I

Screenshot from the movie.

🔹𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐀 𝐅𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑🔹

🎤"I have a four-month-old son - not planned, but more than welcome. I know for certain: my son is the best thing that's ever happened to me. I myself have a very difficult relationship with my father, and I've certainly never dreamed of fatherhood. But it happened to me and I've never felt so happy. And never so scared either.
[...] Having a child with someone is the biggest commitment you can make. People may be surprised that someone like me says things like that, but growing older I've come to the conclusion that only one thing matters: love. Unconditional love - unconditional, pure love.``
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙷𝚞𝚖𝚘, 2006.

🎤"Being a dad has changed my personal life completely, no question," he says. "But it's had no effect whatsoever on my art."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙱𝚎𝚕𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚃𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚑, 2015.

❤️𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞 - 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 2009 (*𝑚𝑖𝑛 3:15)
https://youtu.be/gY8aDjPg4I0

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🔹𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘 𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐊𝐎𝐑 𝐖𝐀𝐓🔹

🎤"It's great that I can perform and create stories for the band in a place that holds special value for me on a personal level. The opportunity to play Angkor Wat was an unbelievable dream come true because I had visited this very spiritual place before. It had marked me and touched me greatly as a person and as someone who is interested in spirituality and Eastern philosophies like Buddhism and Taoism."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙱𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚔𝚘𝚔 𝙿𝚘𝚜𝚝, 𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝, 2013.

💗𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐤𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐭 (2008)
https://youtu.be/IdeSZRk1VSQ

Screenshot from the video.

🔹𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐆𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐓 "𝐈 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐄𝐔" 𝐁𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐓🔹
(𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒈𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒂 𝑺𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒂)

🎤" I think we need to change the world in a positive way ... Even if people don't understand each other, they don't share the same language, they can still share the same principles and the same ideas."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙳𝙷.𝚋𝚎, 𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 2010.

💙 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐈𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐬 2010
https://youtu.be/x6P4RCBR0_I

Photo credit: Marcel Mycielsk

🔹𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐀𝐍 𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐅𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐀𝐓 𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐇'𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐄🔹

🎤"[...] That's crazy: when I'm standing in front of 50,000 people at Rock am Ring, for example, I might feel a little nervous, but I'm in control. If I stand in front of 200 people in my old university and try to give a speech, I am a nervous wreck. The award was a fantastic honor for me. In retrospect, I see this as a really positive experience. But before and during the award ceremony, I felt absolutely uncomfortable with this cape and hat. I had been up since 4 a.m., couldn't sleep, and my nerves were really bad. However, I have heard that this is not unusual. Graham and Alex von Blur are said to have felt the same way when they received their honorary membership.
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚗-𝚝𝚟, 𝚂𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛, 2013.

🎓 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡'𝐬 𝐂𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐲 12.19.2012 🎖️✨
https://youtu.be/4AUvFZeE8HY

Photo credit: Goldsmith University

🔹20 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎🔹

🎤 "I‘m very happy that we survived these 20 last years, whom we are still there, whom we survived. That I and Stefan, our friendship, our collaboration survived a lot and I shall say the emotion which I have around that, it is the gratitude; really.
I have made it since all my adult's life, I don't know what to do or other one, it became precious for me, it became something that I have to work on so that it still lasts at least 20 years. [...] I try really a philosophy of life where I try to live in the moment, I try to be present in the moment."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚑 𝚃𝚅, 2016.

🎤"I feel extremely privileged because it's an amazing position to be in," he marvels. "I'd say that I feel extremely fortunate and very, very grateful. Because this is all I know how to do! I've never had a job, this is all I've done my entire adult life. Sometimes I wonder what would happen if it all collapsed tomorrow - what the f*ck would I do? I can't drive so I can't drive a cab, I refuse to tend bar, my computer skills are shit - I'm unemployable. This is all I got, so I put all of me into it.

"It wasn't our modus operandi at the beginning but we realised very quickly that our music made people happy, even though it can be very dark at times. And a whole community of outcasts has formed around the band, which we never expected to happen - we never set out to do that. We set out to express ourselves artistically and to try and make a living - just to pay the rent and be able to buy food was all we wanted - we didn't even set out to achieve global success, we just didn't want to get a job in an office because that was terrifying!
"But we realised really soon that we made a lot of people happy just through a lot of the tortured feelings that are in the songs, and there's a global community now of misshapes, of square pegs in round holes, of outcasts, of people who feel like they don't really belong to the herd. Which is exactly what myself and Stefan felt like when we were growing up, so there's the connection."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 . 𝚌𝚘𝚖/𝚊𝚞, 2017.

💝 𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐃𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧 12.10.2016
https://youtu.be/pXq2JWQ-GiE

Photo credit: Ekaterina Sirazitdinova

⭐I hope you had a great time remembering these "𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐-𝑴𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔"
🔸 What's your favorite? ✨

📸 Photo Credits pic 1: Center - Unknown / Rest of the pics from left to right: Screenshot, Velvet Goldmine cap, Scarlet Page, Joseph Llanes,©Gwen, Screenshot, Unknown, Brian at AISL - Edit HD by @Placebo_HQ. / Collage edit made by Rita.

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