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Genesis P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson in Manchester on 22 February 1950; died 14 March 2020) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, performance artist, and occultist. P-Orridge rose to notability as the founder of the COUM Transmissions artistic collective and lead vocalist of seminal industrial band, Throbbing Gristle and fronted the experimental band Psychic TV.
Born to parents involved in theatre and music, Megson's father, Ron, was a Jazz musician who liked Bebop and Nat King Cole. A photograph of Megson, age five, appears on the cover of the CD A Hollow Cost. Interest in the occult began as a teen, attending Solihull School; one grandmother was a medium. Hir early confrontational performance work with COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s - early 1970s along with the original Industrial band Throbbing Gristle, which dealt with subjects such as prostitution, pornography, serial killers and occultism, generated controversy.
