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Now the intellectual, arts-loving couple have been happily married for five years, with an inquisitive young son, Jack. Garvey, 47, wasn’t looking for love when he attended film star Benedict Cumberbatch’s wedding a few years ago, but it found him there via a fellow guest, actor Rachael Stirling, daughter of late screen legend Diana Rigg, who had grown fascinated with Garvey’s erudite lyrics on Elbow’s The Take Off and Landing of Everything album. “People stir their gravy to it!” Good fortune just seems to follow him.
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“It’s still going strong on Sunday afternoons,” he’s happy to report. That’s how he’s gotten score-composing assignments in the film world, acting roles and his own weekend radio show on BBC 6, Guy Garvey’s Finest Hour, which he generously expanded during Covid lockdown to include a bonus hour of artists he equates with restorative chicken soup-Van Morrison, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone and similar classic soul-steeped artists.
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Ever since he formed his BRIT- and Mercury Prize-winning outfit Elbow back in 1997, the prog-pneumatic vocalist has stumbled serendipitously into success, with a list of remarkable achievements that just keeps growing, exponentially, leading to his group’s inventive, Chet Baker-relaxed new album Flying Dream 1, recorded live in the echoey Theatre Royal Brighton. Some artists aggressively map out the perfect path to stardom, but not unassuming, soft-spoken and sleepy-eyed Mancunian Guy Garvey.