Turn Back Time
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‘Turn Back Time’ with Rita La Roy singing Gay Love in 1929
This gentleman with the rather most outrageous hairstyle is in a rather déclassé nightclub inhabited by a mix of swanky dressed swells and rough looking sailors. He is listening to Rita La Roy a movie star of the early talking pictures, as she croons “Gay Love” to the crowd in the 1929 film “The Delightful…
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The brilliant Kenny Everett as Cupid Stunt
Kenny Everett was an extraordinary comic genius who started his professional life as the enfant terrible in early days of British pop radio in the 1960’s and after being constantly fired, ended up with his own outrageous TV Shows, the best of which was The Kenny Everett Video Show in 1978. They were all done,…
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Vintage (unedited) Lily Savage
Lily Savage is one of the rare breed of Drag Queens who enjoyed mainstream commercial success without every having to water down her extremely potty-mouth and totally political-incorrect act. He started out in 1978, but it was his 8 year stint performing at London’s gay mecca The Royal Vauxhall Tavern that brought him fame and…
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Mrs Merton : a true British comic legend
Mrs Merton is a quintessential British TV legend. The creation of the brilliant comedienne/writer Caroline Ahearne, this ‘elderly’ agony aunt was the host of an BAFTA Award-winning mock TV chat show that ran for three years from 1995 on the BBC. Celebrities lined up to be her guest even though none of them were spared…
