Gary Lachman

Gary Lachman ( artist name Gary Valentine, born December 24, 1955 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is an American writer and former rock musician.

Musical career

Lachman was known as Gary Valentine founding member and bassist of the New Wave band Blondie. He wrote the music and lyrics of many pieces of tape. In 1977 he left Blondie to form his own group. Other formations, including the collaboration with Iggy Pop in 1981, followed. In 1996, Lachman to London. There he participated in Blondies re-union and performed with the band on various major festivals in America. After he performed pieces, which he had originally written for Blondie with other musicians, he was excluded from further cooperation with Blondie. In 2006 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Literary career

In addition to his musical activities, Gary Lachman studied at California State University, Los Angeles in the 1980s Philosophy. Among other things, he worked in a New Age bookstore in Los Angeles. In addition, he was instructed in this time for four years in groups that established themselves on the Georges I. Gurdjieff supported by Fourth Way.

Had Lachman so far mainly interested in the art and literature of the early 20th century, he worked since his time in London as a writer for the Guardian, the Sunday Times and other newspapers. He is particularly interested in European intellectual history and the occult. Lachman wrote books, articles and essays, among other things, Colin Wilson, Emanuel Swedenborg, PD Ouspensky, Carl Jung and Rudolf Steiner. He is a regular guest at the BBC, gives lectures and is author blog on The Daily Grail and Reality Sandwich. His books and essays have been translated into many languages. Lachman wrote in 2011 a detailed audio essay for the exhibition secret societies at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

Publications

  • Two essays on Colin Wilson: World Rejection and Criminal Romantics & From Outsider to Post - Tragic Man. 1994, ISBN 0-946650-52-7
  • By John Shand: Colin Wilson as Philosopher & Faculty X, Consciousness and the Transcendence of Time. 1996, ISBN 0-946650-59-4
  • As Gary Valentine: New York Rocker: My Life in the Blank Generation with Blondie, Iggy Pop, and Others 1974-1981. 2002, ISBN 0-283-06367- X They stopped making sense, review by Paul Morley in the Guardian, March 2, 2002
  • Review by Erik Davis 14 July, 2008
  • Alone by the fire in the dead of winter ..., review by Nicholas Lezard in The Guardian, January 1, 2005
  • The Rudolf Steiner story. A new look at the life and work of a spiritual pioneer. Info -3 -Verlag, Frankfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-924391-40-9
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