Genesis P-Orridge

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Genesis P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson in Manchester on 22 February 1950; died 14 March 2020) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, performance artist, and occultist. P-Orridge rose to notability as the founder of the COUM Transmissions artistic collective and lead vocalist of seminal industrial band, Throbbing Gristle and fronted the experimental band Psychic TV. Born to parents involved in theatre and music, Megson's father, Ron, was a Jazz musician who liked Bebop and Nat King Cole. A photograph of Megson, age five, appears on the cover of the CD A Hollow Cost. Interest in the occult began as a teen, attending Solihull School; one grandmother was a medium. Hir early confrontational performance work with COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s - early 1970s along with the original Industrial band Throbbing Gristle, which dealt with subjects such as prostitution, pornography, serial killers and occultism, generated controversy. Later musical work with Psychic TV received wider exposure, including some chart-topping singles. GP-O can be found on well over 200 releases, including a number of films. In 1971, P-Orridge met William S. Burroughs after a brief correspondence. One of the most significant outcomes of these exchanges was Burroughs's introduction of P-Orridge to Brion Gysin. Gysin would become a major influence upon P-Orridge's ideas and works and was hir primary tutor in magick. On 04 November 2009, it was announced that Genesis Breyer P'Orridge

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Allegory And Self

Loyalty Does Not End with Death

Spatial Memory

Early Worm

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Thee Fractured Garden

Breathe - Spoken Ambient Words

Imagining October (Original Soundtrack)

When I Was Young

23 Drifts To Guestling

D.O.A. The Third And Final Report

Thee Fractured Garden (Discourses On Innocence Devoured) [with Splinter Test]

DJ-Kicks (Leon Vynehall) [DJ Mix]

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