Personal Life
Kirk Brandon attended Churston Ferrers Grammar School in Devon.
Brandon was declared bankrupt in 1994.
In 1987 Brandon contracted Reiter’s syndrome and could not walk for more than a year.
Brandon married a Danish woman, Christina Sabinsky (b 10 March 1969). Their daughter, Siff Sabinsky Brandon, was born on 22 September 1995.
Brandon sued the singer Boy George for malicious falsehood in 1997 and lost. George revealed details of his love for Brandon and their romantic and sexual affair in his 1995 autobiography Take It Like A Man. Brandon claimed that stories about the gay affair in the early 1980s damaged his career as a musician. He also objected to the lyrics of a Boy George song, "Unfinished Business", which apparently were aimed at him: "I hear you married a Danish girl ... You break your promise easily ... You lie, you lie, you lie. Yeah tough guy, you know exactly what I mean."
Brandon demanded damages from Boy George, George's publishers, Sidgwick and Jackson, and also Virgin Records and EMI Virgin Music Publishing. The judge ruled in favour of the defendants, and ordered Brandon to pay some of their legal costs.
In January 2008, Brandon sued GlaxoSmithKline UK over personal injuries as a result of taking the anti-depressant drug Seroxat.
Brandon had heart surgery in 2011.
Brandon was a tutor at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music in 2012.
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