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Paul Brannigan

"Friends of mine were saying, Give up on the dream, it's not happening." Tobias Forge recalls how forming Ghost helped him deal with a dawning realisation that his dream of becoming a successful musician wasn't ever going to become a reality

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Ghost's conceptual mastermind and band leader Tobias Forge has admitted that he feared that his dream of becoming a professional musician had passed him by in the mid Noughties as he began working on the occcult metal project.

In a new interview with NME.com, the 44-year-old musician reveals that, having played in bands since his teens, by 2004 he was "struggling" with the gnawing realisation that he had missed whatever "wave" was supposed to bear him towards a career in music.

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