Tricky: 'I thought I'd be an underground artist. I was not ready'

Seventeen years ago, Maxinquaye made Tricky an unlikely pop star, and made him angry and unhappy. Now, though, he and Martina Topley-Bird are ready to revisit itOn Easter Sunday 1996 Tricky left his flat on Kensington High Street to buy his usual weed-smoking insomniac's breakfast of Lucozade and chocolate. When he reached the newsagent he had a sudden change of heart. "On the railings there's a big fucking poster of me as Jesus for Time Out magazine," he says, imitating a cartoonish double take...

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