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Ricky Wilson looks back: ‘The Kaiser Chiefs fixated on success. I wish I still had that in me. We weren’t even that good’

The singer on stage fright, being starstruck, and the weirdness of tabloid intrusion

By the mid-noughties, hits including I Predict a Riot, Everyday I Love You Less and Less and Ruby had turned them into a chart-topping, stadium-headlining band. I spent a lot of time in the art room during my lunch breaks at school, and I wasn’t considered confident or cool. Throughout the noughties we were working very hard and travelling relentlessly – so much so that Nick [Hodgson, who left the band in 2012] once tried to undo his seatbelt at a restaurant as he thought he was on a plane.

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