When Martin J. Southrowy, 48, woke up yesterday he thought he would be having a normal relaxed day off from being an estate agent in Brighton, UK. He browsed over the news while enjoying his morning coffee and happened to click on the list of the current top 40 singles, that’s when his world fell apart.
We spoke to Martin from the specialist unit he is being held in.
THAT CAN’T HAPPEN CAN IT?
“It said ‘Top 40 this week’ so even though I’m not really a music guy I thought I’d have a look. The further I got up the list the scarier it became, there was nobody I’d ever heard of and I don’t mean just the odd one, I mean nobody.
That can’t happen can it? I totally understand that music evolves and of course there will be new artists coming along all the time but they don’t get replaced all together do they? Some artists endure through all these different trends. Where was Madonna? She was always in the charts and so was Phil Collins and Steps. There were people or bands in that list that weren’t even words, just symbols and numbers?
Something snapped and I knew I’d woken up in an alternate reality, it wasn’t the future, I checked the date.”
Dr Clari Sait at the unit confirmed Mr Southrowy had been admitted with delusional psychosis “He’s adamant this is not his reality, all we can do is keep him here until Jimmy Sommerville or Jamiroquai release something new”
