- Alice Temple
Alice Temple is an English musician and songwriter. She first became a scenester hanging out with a post-
Culture Club Boy George inNew York City in the mid-1980's. She is now best known for her collaboration withEg White under the nameEg and Alice .A
London er by birth, Alice Temple was the first female UKBMX champion. Later a club kid and musician, Alice Temple began her music career with collaboratorEg White at the age of twenty. Their collaboration,Eg and Alice , released only one album, "24 Years of Hunger" (1991). It was described byAllmusic as "one of the finest, most refined and fully realized recordings of the era, employing a much more sophisticated and romantic style than anything else out of England at the time".After a short stint in Los Angeles, Temple returned to London. While writing and collaborating with White, Temple caught the attention of
James Lavelle , one half of the electronic groupUNKLE . She was then brought in to contribute to UNKLE's "Psyence Fiction" album. Her piece for the album, "Bloodstain," won her critical acclaim. She returned to working with White, and together they put together Temple's 1999 debut solo album "Hang Over", released on V2. She is also featured on the B side of the UNKLE single 'Burn my Shadow', on the track 'Mistress'.She had a well-publicized relationship with model
Rachel Williams cite web |url=http://www.qrd.org/qrd/media/medialert/1995/04.21.95 |date=1995-04-21 |accessdate=2007-08-09 |title=Fair Coverage |work=GLAAD Media Watch]References
External links
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:1dmsa9cgi23a~T0 Bio on All Music Guide]
* [http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/bio/0,,864263,00.html#bio Bio on ArtistDirect]
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