The Life and Death of Lily Savage review: Insightful documentary shows swirling duality in Paul O’Grady’s personality
by Sean O'Grady
Mar 29, 2024
3 minutes
One of the more startling revelations in is that, back in the 1980s, the man behind the drag persona had been a social worker. In a way, it’s even more difficult to envisage than him being an altar boy, an earlier case of tragic miscasting. Entirely untrained and with no previous experience, , the pub act progenitor of today’s drag boom. As O’Grady described her, Lily was “a hard-bitten hooker from Birkenhead with her roots showing and ripped tights and a big handbag”. A little incongruous at first glance, then.
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