Martin Kemp haunted by fear of being famous but broke: ‘Money puts you behind the security gates!’
Martin Kemp is haunted by the fear of being famous but broke. The Spandau Ballet bassist, 61, is worth around $4 million, but said he has been petrified he would lose everything as it would have left him outside “the security gates” but still well-known. He has now channelled his paranoia into the main character in his first thriller novel, ‘The Game’. Martin told The Times about partly basing the book’s fading 1980s pop star Johnny Klein on himself and filling him with his insecurity: “All the way through Spandau I used the name Johnny Klein to check into hotel rooms and book tables in restau...