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Murphy hates fashion hyperbole citing personal peeves that include opinion-formers banging a drum about designers before they've proven their worth and the relentless

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Murphy hates fashion hyperbole, citing personal peeves that include "opinion-formers banging a drum about designers before they've proven their worth, and the relentless search for 'the next Alexander McQueen' - I wish people would give that a rest". She can carry right on, and sometimes she's done more of the climax of the show than me."With Audrey's assistance, Ike is becoming musical hot property again. His 2001 album Here and Now, his first solo effort for 17 years, won a Grammy. This year, he performed on the latest album by Gorillaz, Damon Albarn's "virtual" rock collective; now he's looking forward to going out on a high.When I ask how would he like to go down in history, Ike kicks back in his sun lounger.

"I would say that I'm the guy that went all the way to the top, and then I've come all the way back down to the bottom again And then bounced. I just wanted to play and make music."So I started telling all the band, boys you've got to try this, man, you feel like you just woke up And the next thing I know I was buying by the suitcase I had people bringing it to me from Peru All kind of shit. It never stopped."In many ways, Ike's downward spiral was the natural result of an impoverished child from the Deep South finding himself with unimaginable riches. These days, he doesn't touch the stuff - "I could have one line and it'd be fun, but I wouldn't be able to stop" - and spends his time with Audrey, his girlfriend and musical partner.They've been together almost a decade, and are genuinely affectionate. Audrey is a fortysomething Tina Turner lookalike, right down to the blonde wig she wears when they perform on stage together. It's part homage, part V-sign to the unhappy relationship that defined Ike's career "I have one problem now. I have emphysema," he says, when I mention Audrey's performance the previous night "I stopped smoking in '89 I don't know when I'm going to get hoarse.

It comes all at once, I'm never gonna have to cancel a gig, but that's one reason I have Audrey there Just in case. But the next day, at about 11 o'clock, I was still sitting there putting it in my nose And it didn't feel like I wanted to sleep. Then maybe a week or two later I found it in my pocket, and I just took some and put it in my nose And I didn't feel nuffin This was about two o'clock at night. What happened, man, was that two very famous people I'd been working with in Las Vegas at the same hotel gave me some, about half a gramme in some paper, and I just put it in my coat pocket. I saw them do it, but I didn't do it with them," he says."It was in about 1960.

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