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If there was a prize
for the most brazen punk hussy in 1977 then Cherry Vanilla, a 34 year
old American, would have won it hands down.
DJ, actress, poetess, PA to David Bowie, groupie extraordinaire, and
regular at Max's Kansas City she then decamped to London as a singer
along with Wayne County and The Heartbreakers at the height of the punk
explosion playing such venues as the famous Roxy Club in Covent Garden.
In 1977 her
act was US cabaret cum New Wave performed with strong sexual overtones and which noone had seen before so up front in a woman.
Coming to the UK gave it a vaguely punk orientation and she
went on to record two albums and two singles including
"The Punk"
for RCA which did nothing before she gradually faded away.
Now aged 60 and
doing PA for Vangelis of all people she still struts her stuff every
once in a while and why not indeed. |