Reply #3: He wasn't performing ... [View All]

[meegbear]

http://www.geocities.com/popocalypse/musicxz.html
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Unfortunately, XTC's momentum was cut abruptly when Partridge suffered a nervous breakdown just before a tour scheduled to start in California. With success came increasingly larger audiences, and Partridge's stagefright before large crowds left him unable to play in public.
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But he did collapse in Paris
http://chalkhills.org/articles/TrouserPress8310.html
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Dietary problems played their part in his first collapse, in Paris. "I hadn't eaten for three days, and my not wanting to go in front of the public was getting worse and worse. I ran out on stage and after the first few chords of the first song I just collapsed. We cancelled the English tour. I went to see psychiatrists, doctors -- a hypnotist, even -- and went to America thinking I might be cured.