"I find it an effort to keep up appearances."
"My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people. I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it."
"Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness."
"I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else."
"It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last."
Dusty Springfield (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999)
The absolute diva-est
ReplyDeleteWithout her, where would the beehive wig industry have been? Jx
DeleteHow can one not love her?
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and gone way too soon.
ReplyDeleteA voice for the ages, surely, but never in the business has there been a star who so clearly had, from start to finish, no input at all into her styling - it's as if they just let the maddest person working at the moment at her.
ReplyDeleteThe result is that she's a veritable time-capsule of extreme looks, but she also never quite looks comfortable.
To me, she always looked like a man (or a bull-dyke) in drag! She wore some horrible clothes in her time - but nobody cared, when she had such an incredible talent... Jx
Deletei think it got easier for her as time went on.
ReplyDeleteBy the 1980s, it was OK for Dusty to dress "dykey". I suppose... Jx
DeleteLord in Heaven.... I love Dusty Springfield so much. I spent her birthday listening to her.
ReplyDeleteYou'll love the video I found over at Give 'em the old Razzle Dazzle, then... Jx
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