Alex Weller’s Reviews > Gorillaz: Rise of the Ogre > Status Update

Just read "August 15th 1997 'D-Day'". Murdoc crashed his car into the music store 2-D worked at so he could steal instruments. The car crashed into 2-D's eye, damaging it, putting him in a coma, and getting Murdoc sentenced to community service. 2-D woke up during another crash from Murdoc, damaging his other eye but waking him up. Murdoc took one look at him and realized he had the frontman his band needed.

Just read "12D3: In the Suburbs, They're Spooked". Now we learn about 2D's backstory. He grew up in a regular suburban home, with not much in brains but a love for zombie movies and stuff that made electronic noises. When he was eleven, he fell out of a tree and lost all his body hair, which grew back blue, then started developing serious migraines that he needed painkillers for. Interesting.

Just started reading "Chapter 2 - Unto the World a Band is Born" and read "Murdoc Niccals - 'Spawn of Stoke'". We read about Murdoc's miscreant school life and developing tastes for music. He wised up to a bully and made a deal with the devil for a successful music career, only to go through several failed bands because his singing was crap, leading him to go search for a new singer.

Just read "Chapter 1 - Nature Adores a Vacuum". The narrator gives a flattering summary of the history of Gorillaz while Murdoc pleasures himself. The book will be an oral history where the band members talk about their backgrounds, formation, and everything they did while making their albums. Here we go! And Murdoc, don't be gross!

Just started the book and read the prelude. Murdoc starts things off by recalling a memory from his childhood, where his abusive father forced him to perform in a talent show at a pub as a way to make a quick pub, humiliating the young Murdoc. Murdoc swore that day to never take to the stage under someone else's direction and believes Gorillaz were created as a middle finger to everything the talent show ever was.