This week way back in 1978 saw the birth of a legend...
...as Miss Lily Savage made her world debut at the Black Cap in Camden!
Sad to say, the Black Cap remains boarded-up as the legal wranglings continue over its future, as they have been for the past six years. Happily, that other "venerable drag institution" the Royal Vauxhall Tavern - having won its own, similar, battle aganst developers - remains very much open. Here, in a grainy old bit of footage, Lily joins forces with fellow icons David Dale and Sandra Lush as "LSD" at the RVT back in the 1980s:
...and here she is on top form, live at the Filth concert in aid of the Terence Higgins Trust a few years later, in 1994:
A national treasure, indeed.
I love me some Lily Savage. A drag institution to be sure. Present and counting... and in our Herstory books.
ReplyDeleteShe's definitely top of the tree as far as I'm concerned! Jx
DeleteDitto.
DeleteA role model for you, I'd imagine. Jx
DeleteHow iconic. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteShe is indeed "an icon". Jx
DeleteA firm favourite with me as well!
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The wigs are somewhat tempting... Jx
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