Richard Coles
Richard Coles (born March 26, 1962 in Northampton , England ) is an English clergyman, author and radio presenter. He was best known as half of the pop duo The Communards .
Life
Richard Coles grew up in Northamptonshire , where he attended the private Wellingborough School . During his school days he was a choirboy and received classical music training. He discovered his homosexuality and received psychiatric treatment after a drug overdose.
After moving to London he worked as a saxophonist and met Jimmy Somerville , who at the time was the singer of the pop band Bronski Beat . Cole supported Bronski Beat and after his departure formed the duo The Communards with Somerville , with whom he released two very successful albums and with the two cover songs Don't Leave Me This Way and Never Can Say Goodbye landed two sales hits.
Life as a pop star with excessive drug abuse and in the public eye caused problems for Coles. During the Communards tour in 1988, Somerville had an argument during which Coles claimed he was HIV positive - a lie he kept alive to his friends for five years. The Communards broke up, and Richard Coles began writing as a journalist for the Times literary supplement and the Catholic Herald .
From 1990 to 1994 he studied theology at King's College London ; In 1991 he converted to Catholicism , but returned to the Anglican Church in 2001 . In 2005 he was ordained a priest of the Anglican Church. He completed his tenure as curate (the Anglican counterpart to the German vicariate ) at St. Botolph's Church in Boston (Lincolnshire) and at St. Paul's Church in Knightsbridge in London . Since April 2011 Coles has served as the parish pastor of St Mary the Virgin in Finedon, Northamptonshire.
He also presented for Radio Four of the BBC the show Saturday Live . His unusual life story was the inspiration for the BBC sitcom Rev . In 2017 he took part in the dance show Strictly Come Dancing .
Richard Coles had been in a registered civil partnership with his husband David, also an Anglican priest, since 2005. According to the requirements of the church for same-sex partnerships of priests, the two lived celibate . The partnership ended with David's death in December 2019.
plant
Music albums
- The Communards : Communards , 1986
- The Communards: Red , 1987
Books
- Lives of the Improbable Saints (with drawings by Ted Harrison ), 2012, Darton: Longman & Todd, ISBN 978-0232529555
- Legends of the Improbable Saints (with drawings by Ted Harrison), 2013, Darton: Longman & Todd, ISBN 978-0232530025
- Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit , 2014, London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, ISBN 978-0297870302
- Into the Harvest , 2016, London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, ISBN 978-0297609889
swell
- Website by Richard Coles (English)
- Richard Coles in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Richard Coles: My Week , The Guardian , December 6, 2009 Online (English)
- Olga Craig: Richard Coles: from pop star to pulpit , The Daily Telegraph , April 3, 2011, online (English)
- Patrick Strutwick: Richard Coles: My journey from pop star to celibate vicar , The Independent , October 13, 2014, online (English)
- Biography at JLA (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7800421/Reverend-Richard-Coles-announces-death-civil-partner-David.html
- ↑ Gay priests are allowed to become bishops in England. zeit.de, accessed on March 29, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coles, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English clergyman, author and radio host |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Northampton , England |