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This English New Wave popstar has been performing and touring for decades as a hetero male to support his double life as a cross-dresser. He lives part-time in Berlin where he conducts his life as a woman. Not as a flashy drag queen or tart- he dresses like an upper crust society lady in a blonde wig with proper stockings and sensible shoes that match his purse. This immaculately groomed and refined lady has a feminine name and nobody ever mentions the singer's name. She has a masculine male assistant and hopes to have enough money saved someday to retire from the music biz and live fulltime as a woman.


Posted by Janet Charlton on October 29, 2007 10:30 PM
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Who else could it be but the Mozzer himself?

Posted by: Lola


Joey Arias?

Posted by: Anonymous


Eddie Izzard....oh he's just an actor right

Posted by: Anonymous


Nick Rhodes of DD...he's been wearing demure pink lipstick since 1982. Proper stockings & sensible shoes - how very British.

Posted by: Anonymous


That is SO easy...
Joe Jackson

Posted by: Berlin Bertha


My first thought was Morrisey, too.

Posted by: Anonymous


Morrissey is soooo not hetero.....

Posted by: Anonymous


It's got to be Martin Gore.

Posted by: Anonymous


I agree with Joe Jackson- I heard rumors about him for years as a crossdresser.

Posted by: Anonymous


george michael?

Posted by: Anonymous


Nick Rhodes is my gut reaction. But then again, Joe Jackson is an interesting choice. Not sure that I'd classify him as "New Wave," though.

Posted by: WendyInDC


morrissy came to mind immediately.

Posted by: Anonymous


i am guessing brian ferry

Posted by: Anonymous


Who cares?

Posted by: Anonymous


Adam Ant, I'm positive

Posted by: Anonymous


Like Janet would know new wave from big band.

Posted by: Anonymous


Your Mother.

Posted by: Anonymous Annie


If Morrissey or Joe Jackson wanted to retire, they could do it today. They don't need to "save up" to do so. So I reject either of those as the transvestite in question. Also, Nick Rhodes, not a "new wave" star.
I would like to posit Gary Numan, and Adam Ant, although I have no evidence to back it up, except that they are definitely considered "new wave," both did wear makeup on stage, both have been (or are) married, and both seem to still have need of income. But I don't know if either of them live in Berlin.
So there.

Posted by: New Wave Detective


Wow! What a blast from the past. This is my item, I am the right age, but I can't decide between someone from Duran Duran or I just can't get it...Damn it! Janet! I love you......

Posted by: maxxine e kaufman


Elton John

Posted by: Anonymous


Do you people not know what New Wave is? Morrissey, Elton John, come on!!!!

Posted by: megs


Boy George

Posted by: carlotta


Elton John never hid his female name....every

Posted by: Anonymous


Elton John is NOT New Wave. He grossed $118m in 2006, so I highly doubt he needs to "save money to retire".

Posted by: JAGGERisGOD


I thought...maybe....Martin Gore of Depeche Mode????

Posted by: CS


David Sylvian of Japan?

Posted by: Amber


BOY GEORGE

Posted by: bamby


Nick Rhodes

Posted by: Anonymous


Kevin Rowland of Dexy's Midnight Runners

Posted by: Anonymous


Morrissey as a cross dresser, that is the best joke I've heard in a long time. He may be gay but that doesnt mean he would ever want to live as a woman. He is too busy with his career to trifle in Berlin in heels.

Posted by: chichi


Definitely not Morrissey, when has he ever claimed hetero!

Adam Ant is still in mental ward? Or is he out now?

Don't think it is Martin Gore, could retire anytime and lives in Santa Barbara.

Posted by: Tish


its Janets wig

Posted by: Anonymous


Adam Ant!

Posted by: flea


the singer from dead alive "You SPin Round like a c record"

Posted by: Anonymous


the singer from dead alive "You SPin Round like a c record"

Posted by: Anonymous


This is such a "who cares?". Give us some real dirt. Like where is George Bush hiding the bodies of the little children he eats?

Posted by: meowomon


It is Joe Jackson. Period.

Posted by: anonymous


I think it might be Adam Ant.

Posted by: Anonymous


this is just a stab, but the day this item first appeared, was the weekend the Pogues performed and the Sex Pistols performed in LA. I am just saying.

Posted by: maxx


Kim Wilde!

Posted by: Anonymous


Umm hello it is Joe Jackson.

Posted by: lovelyleo


Umm hello it is Joe Jackson.

Posted by: lovelyleo


Well I know for a fact Joe Jackson has a thing for "the girls" IF YOU GET MY DRIFT. The guy from Dead or Alive is married to a man, has had so much plastic surgery he makes Amanda Lepore look like a natural beauty. Definitely not Pete Burns.

Posted by: .


It's STING! Trudy will glad to see the last of him.

Posted by: Anonymous


Billy Idol was my spontaneous thought and since no-one else has posted it, I might as well.

Posted by: Anonymous


The Pogues????
So by that reference you mean Shane MacGowan I assume.

Far from 'new wave' are the Pogues and Sex Pistols, but thanks for laugh of Shane MacGowan saving his shillings so he can traipse about Berlin in makeup and matching stockings and dress. Then he can throw up on the ensamble and fall in the gutter. Yeah, he'd really pass as a chick. Ditto Johnny Rotten.
Punk ain't new wave, no matter what.

*As to the Kevin Rowland guess, that's my best guess, too. Joe Jackson perhaps, but only if he's burned thru LOTS of cash already

Posted by: KP Ryan


I just checked wikipedia and Joe Jackson is a British, new wave popstar that lives part-time in Berlin!

Posted by: I love a mystery!


Joe Jackson does not live in Berlin. He recorded his last CD in Berlin but he does not live there.

Posted by: Anonymous


Janets cheap Dynell wig

Posted by: Anonymous


Yes, Joe Jackson lives in Berlin. He has done so since Jan 2007!

Posted by: Anonymous


Rick Astley

Posted by: Anonymous


wikipedia mentions that Joe Jackson spends alot of time in Berlin these days.

Posted by: Anonymous




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