Holly Woodlawn has died.
I was around fourteen when Lou Reed’s song came out. Even then, I desperately wanted to pluck my eyebrows, shave my legs and become a “she”. It took me forty years to pluck up the courage and try.
All I need to do now is hitch-hike across the USA…
So, Holly Woodlawn, vale.
I was laid low with a quite nasty bout of flu when that record was a hit. I laid in bed for just over a week with the radio on beside me. I have a strange little snapshot of all the stuff that was in the charts at that time, Lou Reed, Neil Sedaka, Andy Williams, Hot Chocolate…I’m sure that I could think of a few more given time but it was quite a long time ago.
I never knew until yesterday that the song featured a real person!