SEVERAL FRIENDS WHO HAD INTERVIEWED ANN BOLEYN FOR OTHER PUBLICATIONS WARNED ME THAT SHE WAS "NOT YOUR AVERAGE FEMALE SINGER!" WHEN HER PUBLICIST, BRENDA UMBRELL, INFORMED ME THAT THE ONLY TIME SHE WOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR AN INTERVIEW WAS AT 4:30 a.m., I WAS NOT TERRIBLY SURPRISED! WE MET AT THE FAME CAFE, WHICH WAS ONLY A FEW BLOCKS FROM HER HOLLYWOOD HILLS HOME! ANN, DRESSED IN BLACK, APPEARED IN TRUE HOLLYWOOD FASHION...WEARING SUNGLASSES IN THE DARK OF NIGHT!
Ann, who is the descendant of nobility (really!) is, as the British say, "not amused", by my comment. After removing her sunglasses, she glares at me with her famous piercing eyes that change color depending on her mood. (Are they blue, green, or yellow?) "Excuse me?!" she demands, and for a moment I fear that she might disappear into the darkened streets from which she emerged just a few minutes earlier.
The publicist interupts, "Ann does not use drugs, if that is what you are asking."
Aware that I have started the interview on the wrong foot, I apologise and change the subject.
"So do you always conduct your interviews at 4:30 a.m.?"
Once again, seeing Ann to be in a foul mood, the publicist takes over. "Believe me Tony, both Ann and I wish we could be doing this over ca drink at The Rainbow. But, if Ann wants to remain in The Land of The Undead, strange hours are not an option. Actually she is taking all of this very well. I guess she is pretty experienced at it. Both she and I were at her family home recently and her mom and dad told me about how she was stalked by Ted Bundy before se came to LA." (Ted Bundy was eventually caught and executed in Florida.)
"There is, however, a moral to this story!" Ann chuckles, sarcastically. "Never ask for something, because you might get it!"
Apparently her problems with her current stalker began after she and some friends performed a spell to attract a lover. "I quess I was acting rather pathetic," Ann explained. "I had been in love with this person (whose name she refused to disclose) for years. When we first go to know eachoter it was realy fun, but, for the previous six months his manager and other people were letting me know, loud and clear, that I had like a snowballs chance in hell. I was really depressed, to the point that I did not want to get out of bed. What was even worse was that many people were spreading rumors that I was gay because I was not dating. There was this incredible pressure for me to start dating somebody to end those rumors. A lot of people thought I was crazy because I had a couple well-known people calling me to ask me out, and I would refuse. That is probably where the rumors started that I was gay. I would turn down a date, yet I would sit at home and pine about how sad and lonely I was whenever I would hear about how so-and-so was going out doing this or that. I would just sit at home and wait for more bad news. My friends and I had a little circle and they thought doing a spell might draw me out of my depression. So we made us a list of all the things I found desirable in a man...like common interests, appearance, etc. We just forgot to specify that he not be a serial killer! And, did I mention, I am not the only participant in the spell to have this outcome! One of the other girls is in hiding from another creep! I can not blame anyone except for myself. These kinds of spells are not good and I had never done them before for that reason! After all of my expereince (with magic) you would think I would have known better! I have no one to blame but myself!"
Ann went on to explain that she has been interested in the occult since childhood. "My grandfather on my mothers side was a big influence in my life. He was a past-Worshipful Master in the Masons and a Rosicrution member as well...even though those two groups are somewhat of rivals! He pushed my mother to get involved, but, she hated it. No matter how she discouraged me, I was fascinated and was innitiated as early as I could, which was at age 14. Later I learned that many of my ancestors were interested in this stuff. My grandfather on my paternal side became very famous in the early 1900s. The newspapers called him the SINISTER MINISTER because he decided to be a doctor after he was already a minister. To accomplish his dream, he attended Michigan State, where he played football. Back in those days, people were killed playing football and Michigan were real killers! In one year they killed or permanently inured six or eigth people. So my grandpa would like kick the crap out ofis opponents in a football match, maybe even kill somebody, and then go preach on Sunday! The churc did not like it much and the newspapers had a great story! He is in The Football Hall of Fame! Anyway, he did eventually become a doctor and started the first medical practice in the western hemispere to treat people who were addicted to drugs. That is how he met Alistair Crowley, who was then setting up the OTO in Pasadena. In fact I have some very rare Crowley books."
"So is this one of the reasons you went to Russia?" I ask.
"I was one of them. Getting a visa to go to the USSR is pretty difficult. I didn't have to worry about him over there. But then there was the matter of "The Black Book".
I had heard many rumors about the reasons for the delay of the Hellion opus. Now was my chance to get it from the source."'So?"
Well the LP was going to come out on New Renaissane, but we were embnroiled in a lawsuit with our distributor. Hellion, King Kobra, At War and Sepultura were all on the charts...Hellion and King Kobra were on MTV But it was during the days when everyone was shipping all the LPs back to the distributors and money was tight. It became a big night mare. I call the summer of 1988 "The Summer of Hell". So we made a deal with Enigma, and were told that our new record would have distribution through Capital. But the week after we signed the agreement, Enigma decided to close their business. Somehow the album ended up at Restless, which was one of Enigma's sub-labels. Our album kept being delayed, and delayed, and delayed. The record company had a time limit on putting out the album or we would have had it back. So, instead of loose their rights, they claimed that the mix was no good! It was a joke! The mixes were perfectly good...great in fact. But what does the record company do? They send in a guy with our masters who has NO CLUE about the music...into a studio without an automated board! The poor guy had no chance! We ended up with "scratch vocals" being used instead of the "keepers" and the wrong guitar solos! How can I promote something like that when I know how it was supposed to sound?! We recorded many of the songs from "The Black Book" when we were in The USSR at the Monsters of Rock shows. I hope to get that out somehow. Other than than, I don't know what to do. Hell! Some of the vocals were totally off key---they the warm-up vocals.
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