A chance discovery from scanning the "death notices" on Wikipedia, as is my wont, throws up a rather obscure name - but one who was integral to a genre of music that I (and myriad queens worldwide) went nuts over in the mid-80s, Hi-NRG!
Mr Denis LePage (for it is he) emerged from the unlikely music scene of Quebec in Canada to become not only a key member of disco favourites Kat Mandu (whose The Break, written by Mr LePage, was a worldwide club hit in the late 70s), but later with his wife formed the electronic duo Lime, responsible for many key dance choons in that heady, hedonistic era. Denis was also a gifted multi-instrumentalist and producer with hundreds of credits ranging from Carol Jani to France Joli.
This brought me to recall a post featuring Lime that I did on this very blog (gulp!) fifteen years ago.
For your delectation, dear reader, here it is again. Somebody pass the poppers!
Madam Arcati has just found this faboo little gem of a megamix featuring our Great Earth Mother Divine:
Of course, revisiting this kind of music always sets me off on a Hi-NRG kick - and so here are few other gems from the heady gay music era of the 1980s. First up the brilliant Lime, with a video evidently filmed in November somewhere in Norfolk:
Next, a pair of "uber-butch" queens, Patrick Cowley...
...and and Paul Parker:
And finally, winning the award for possibly the worst mime by "badly made-up drag" ever, here's the superb Flirts!
Whew...
FOOTNOTE: Interestingly Mr LePage transitioned to "Nini Nobless" in the final years of their life.