Be thatBe that as it may, Cillian de Buitléar, James’s producer, insisted that she took the business of being an entertainer seriously. “She wasn’t messing around, despite her unorthodox time signatures,” he said. “There was a certain amount of guessing you had to do when she started doing a cover version of a well-known song in rehearsal, but I suppose you could say she was reinterpreting it.”
One of the best Times obits for a while. I particularly liked:
“If the voice was loud, so too were the glamorous outfits, a riot of primary colours resembling a tube of Smarties that had been left near an open fire.”
Out the park!