BRONSON MAKES JAILHOUSE ROCK
Hardman cuts charity record
NOTORIOUS lag Charles Bronson has a new kind of criminal record – after launching a music career.
The 68-year-old has recorded a single about his time in jail, Only Mad Men Crawl. He had asked to collaborate with former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher, but the rocker was working on another project. Instead he paired up with the band Lost Vegas for the track, which is raising money for a suicide prevention charity. Frontman Chris Topliss said: “Charles wanted to spread a positive message for people finding it hard to cope in lockdown and isolation.
“Liam was already doing a charity single, so our name was put forward as I am a big fan of some of [Bronson’s] poetry.” Bronson, an inmate at HMP Woodhill, Bucks, is coming up for parole soon and talks on the track about losing his sanity during his 44 years behind bars. The lifer, who changed his name to Charles Salvador, said the song was an outlet during long hours confined to his cell. He said: “I’m locked up in a concrete coffin 23 hours of a 24-hour day. I created it because I like to keep my fingers in all the pies.
“I like to let people know that my talent, my gift of life, my art, my poetry, my writings, my books, it shows a different light of me.” Bronson added: “I wasn’t always nice, but now I’m creative, I’m positive, I’m focused. I’m not such a bad person. I do quite a bit for charities and I enjoy that.” Profits from the song, out this week, go to the Campaign Against Living Miserably.
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