From Mohair Suits to Kinky Boots How Music, Clothes and Going Out Shaped My Life and Upset My Mother

by Deane, Geoff

• ISBN13: 9781739471637
• ISBN10: 1739471636
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2024-09-17
• Publisher: Muswell Press

Summary

As the lead singer of Modern Romance he toured the world, as the screenwriter of Kinky Boots he conquered Hollywood, now comes Geoff Deane’s latest act as a brilliant and witty raconteur in this hilarious memoir.

Geoff Deane has worked as a fly-pitcher selling out of a suitcase, and flogged suits on Brick Lane market in London’s East End. He was the singer in a much-loved culty punk band the Leyton Buzzards, a floppy-haired pop star in Modern Romance, a songwriter, and record producer.

He wrote a gay anthem for John Waters drag queen muse Divine, worked as journalist and restaurant critic for style magazines The Face and Arena, before becoming a successful writer and producer of TV comedy. And then he wrote a couple of films, one of which, Kinky Boots, became a Tony Award winning Broadway stage show.

With a cast ranging from local oddballs to international celebrities, Geoff Deane’s unique take on the world is only matched by his extraordinarily rich use of language, with a smattering of Cockney rhyming slang, Yiddish and Polari. A glossary is provided.

Author Biography

Geoff Deane grew up in London’s East End. He was a singer in the punk bank the Leyton Buzzards before going on to become lead singer in Modern Romance. He worked as a journalist on The Face and Arena and became a TV and film scriptwriter with credits including Kinky Boots and It’s a Boy Girl Thing.