Jean and Joan say they didn't really know who Nickey was.
A mystery at the time, Nickey has since become a missing person – but I found an interview with her online which pieces together the full story.
‘I hated every hour of being in Fanny,’ Nickey says. Her reason, she says, for hating being in Fanny is that ‘I am one of the world's most passionate misogynists. My “nurturing instincts” run strictly to keyboards, plants and small animals. I can't abide the sound of most female singers, and I sure as Hell have never understood the female bonding/ sisterhood thing.’
Had the hell-raising Nickey Barclay been interviewed by Bobbi Jo Hart, this dutiful hagiography would have kicked ass and David Bowie's work would have been done.
MUSIC RICHARD OSBORNE
RADIO 3 DUMBS DOWN
The new-look Radio 3, which launches on 2nd April, is being accused of dumbing down.
And, no, I'm talking about not BBC Radio 3 – more of it later – but BerlinBrandenburg's cultural channel, rbbKultur, known in a previous incarnation as Radio 3.
This wasn't the first German station to adopt a British name to polish its: a mix of classical music and high culture, modelled on the BBC's world-renowned Third Programme, launched in 1946.
