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

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Geoff Deane

From Mohair Suits to Kinky Boots

How Music, Clothes and Going Out Shaped My Life and Upset My Mother

Geoff Deane

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Muswell Press
27 February 2024

Autobiography: arts & entertainment; Memoirs; Humour collections & anthologies

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.

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By: Geoff Deane
Imprint: Muswell Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm,
ISBN: 9781739123895
ISBN 10: 1739123891
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 27 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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

'London's riposte to Damon Runyan' Tony Parsons. 'The Missing Link between Micky Flannagan and David Sedaris' Kimberley Chambers. 'The Samuel Pepys of East London' Maurice Gran. 'There are worse groups than Modern Romance. But can anyone seriously think of one?' Morrissey