The individual responsible for opening my way to magic was a flamboyant gay biker artist with a dangerous fancy for the Hell’s Angels and a serious interest in the notorious Aleister Crowley. An excerpt from my new book, Touched By The Presence: From Blondie's Bowery and Rock and Roll to Magic and the Occult, out this autumn.

Who was Fernando Pessoa? Oddly enough, the last person to answer that question was Pessoa himself.

May the light be with you.

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