Steve Priest

surviving co-founding member has died of an as-yet unrevealed cause. Steve Priest – once warned by David Bowie: “You know you really are putting much too much make-up on?” – was the band’s king of pantomime high camp. The Middlesex-born bassist, who once appeared on wearing a sequinned jumpsuit featuring the words ‘fuck you’ on its reverse, was always on the lookout for Priest dressed as “a gay Nazi”, daubed in layers of make-up and sporting an SS tunic, complete with swastika armband and a Hitler moustache.