Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe actor Andrew Sachs who played the hapless and much beloved waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers (ranked number one in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programs by the British Film Institute) died recently aged 86. Sachs had a long and distinguished career on TV and in Films that lasted almost 60 years, but … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe American singer Kay Starr died yesterday aged 94 years old. Starr was a pop star in the 1950’s when glamour was an important element of a singer’s success. She had a string of hits including two that were at No 1 on the Billboard Charts for some weeks. When the 1960’s heralded in a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterBobby Vee the clean-cut all American pop singer who was a teenage idol and heartthrob in the 1960’s who died yesterday couldn’t have been more worlds apart than the androgynous singer Pete Burns who also passed away this week. Vee was just 15 years old when got his first break and answered an advert for musicians … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterPete Burns the Brit pop-singer who became a Reality TV personality, died suddenly yesterday after a massive cardiac arrest. He was 57 years old. Boy George mourning his passing, described Burns as ‘one of our great true eccentrics‘. Burns found fame as a member of a proto-goth group originally called Nightmares in Wax before they … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe whole of the U.K. is in deep mourning today, and anybody in then rest of the civilized world that was deprived from watching Coronation Street the world’s longest running TV soap opera will not understand why. The actress Jean Alexander who played the quintessential British working class legendary heroine Hilda Ogden for 23 years until … Continue reading
