I'll Be Next To Vanish: A gripping psychological thriller by Mark Gillespie

Author:Mark Gillespie [Gillespie, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Deep Red Publishing
Published: 2022-07-03T16:00:00+00:00

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Nineties Gold

Ryker and Sally – Twenty-Five Years Later!

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Nineties Gold is a popular YouTube channel (725k subscribers) that celebrates the best of nineties music. The genres covered are mostly rock and pop. It’s a long-term passion project created and presented by forty-five-year-old Alison Barker, a former music festival promoter from Cornwall, England.

As well as albums and individual songs, the channel also looks at the unique personalities that stamped their mark on that particular era.

Alison presents each video from a spare bedroom in her Cornwall house that she’s turned into a shrine to the final decade of the twentieth century. A collage of posters can be seen on the wall behind her desk, featuring some of the best bands and solo artists from that era: Nirvana, The Broken Gods, Rage Against the Machine, Oasis, Guns N’ Roses, Alanis Morrissette and more.

The wall is also peppered with used concert tickets.

ALISON: Hi everyone. Welcome to another edition of Nineties Gold with me your host, Alison Barker. Today, I’m taking a brief look at one of the great rock and roll tragedies of not just the nineties, but of all time. This is the story of Ryker Marshall and Sally Darbey. Really guys, this one deserves a full-length episode and I promise I’ll do just that in the future. As for today, I’m giving you a brief intro to the story because, as we all know if you’re watching this just after upload, it’s almost April 23rd. Which means it’s been twenty-five years since Ryker’s disappearance and twenty since Sally’s tragic suicide.

Alison narrates the intro over a faded colour image of Ryker and Sally at the Reading Festival in 1996. They’re walking hand in hand, unkempt and smiling. It’s a rare, unguarded moment. A photo beloved amongst the fans because of how happy they both look.

Cut back to Alison in the studio.

ALISON: This story is a real heartbreaker guys. As you all know, I’m a massive Broken Gods fan and in particular, a Ryker Marshall fan. I think that Ryker was a bona fide genius in a time when that word – genius – is horribly overused and watered down. Ryker was the real deal but, as is so often the case with our creative geniuses, he was troubled. Deeply troubled.

Cut to a black and white shot of a young Ryker standing on stage in the middle of a gig. He’s in his prime, playing guitar, head thrust backwards, beads of sweat flying off his brow. Sally is visible in the background, standing at the edge of the stage. She’s staring at Ryker, holding her arms in the air and singing along to whatever song the Gods are playing.

Cut back to studio.

ALISON: Ryker Marshall and Sally Darbey first met in February 1990 when The Broken Gods were a rough garage band from the east end of Glasgow called Creative Differences. Despite their limitations as a band, Sally was one of the early believers. She said in later years that, despite their flaws, she saw the band’s potential from the start.

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