Pregnant Bjork is burgled
Rarebird Nine
http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=684685&in_review_text_id=657202
Pregnant Bjork is burgled
by James Burleigh
Bjork, the Icelandic singer who is seven months pregnant, has been
burgled while she slept at her west London home.
The eccentric pop singer and her boyfriend, the artist Matthew Barney,
are thought to have been asleep in her basement flat in Maida Vale
when the burglars struck, taking valuable recording equipment.
It is not known whether either of the couple confronted the intruders
or whether the thieves made off with any original material recorded by
the artist.
Bjork, 36, who already has a 15-year-old son Sindri who lives in
Iceland with his father Thor Eldon, looked shaken as she was
interviewed by CID officers at her home yesterday afternoon - two days
after Friday night's break-in.
Wearing a blue-and-white checked maternity dress, she spent almost an
hour in the back garden of the Georgian building speaking to two
officers.
When asked about the break-in, the diminutive singer, whose hits
include It's Oh So Quiet and Violently Happy, said: "I don't want to
make any comment about the burglary. It's a private matter."
But a source said: "Bjork and her boyfriend were in her flat on Friday
night when the burglary happened. The burglars got away with a lot of
electronic equipment."
Her next-door-neighbour Jan Archibald said: "Bjork must be terrified,
especially as she is so pregnant. It is just awful. Burglaries and
crime generally in this area is getting worse and worse. It seems no
one can avoid it."
The incident comes as many celebrities who have been victims of crime
are speaking out about London's unsafe streets. Liz Hurley has spoken
of feeling very nervous at the lack of police officers on patrol and
said London was far less safe than New York.
A Scotland Yard spokeswoman confirmed that police are probing the
Bjork break-in.
In 1996, a letter bomb posted to Bjork's home was intercepted by
police. The sulphuric acid device sent from America by an obsessed
stalker - who later committed suicide - was found at a sorting office
en route to the singer's address.
Ricardo Lopez had placed it in a hollowed-out book before posting it
to Britain from his home in Florida.
After success with The Sugarcubes, Bjork, who grew up in a commune in
Iceland's capital Reykjavik, shot to fame when her solo album Debut
was released in 1993. It sold over two-and-a-half million copies
worldwide and singles including Human Behaviour, Venus As A Boy and
Big Time Sensuality were all top 20 hits.
Her second album Post, released in June 1995, did even better with
sales of over three million copies worldwide.
Last year she launched her Vespertine album at St John's, a church
just off Millbank, where she was joined on stage by San Francisco
sound-sculptors Matmos, harpist Zeena Parkins and a 14-strong choir
from Greenland.
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Hardy Hestert
Hopefully she isn't traumatized in a way that has a bad influence on her
pregnancy, motherhood or her creative. To love and embrace life is so
important for her, we don't want a frightened or paranoid Björk.
Rarebird Nine schrieb:
Oksq2
and then didnt someone break into her mom's house and live there for a week or
so. and now this, which was obviously another fan related thing. it's
unfortunate
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Oksq2
>the article:
Hmm... they break into bjork's home and steal her recording equipment. they
knew where they were. i find it hard to believe that they just stummbled
across her home by accident.
Angelo
steal recordings of music - DAT tapes, CD's, hard disks, etc. These
can be sold, say on eBay, as 'previously unreleased' stuff, although
it would attract attention.
Someone who steals stuff to sell for food or drugs would take any
electronic equipment, especially if it is worth a lot.
"There are two possibilities: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not.
Both are equally terrifying." - Arthur C. Clarke
Rudi de Jong
in Iceland) I'm affraid Björk is going to turn away from the public
domain.....
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> Well if these things keep happening (her mother was burgled a while ago
too
> in Iceland) I'm affraid Björk is going to turn away from the public
> domain.....
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> Rudi de Jong
worse yet, her music might become dark and negative.