He is currently touring a new album, Mechanical Animals, and is engaged to 24-year-old actress Rose McGowan.

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His band's single Mechanical Animals was a huge American chart-topper that also placed the band in the UK Top 10 for the first time in 1998.

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We got out and walked around, and people pointed and laughed at the odd mechanical animals, the ever odder mechanical humans, the constellation of lights on the lawn and on the roof.

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