The gorgeous, pouting Steve McQueen would have been 90 today.
Every "gay icon"'s favourite costume designer Bob Mackie - see here and here - blows out 80 candles on his cake today.
But here's the shocker!
That waif-like German popstrel "one-hit-wonder" - she of the unshaven armpits that generated banner headlines in the trashy tabloids - with the worldwide smash hit about the Cold War, Nena is 60 years old!
Now I feel old...
Correction. I am old.
bob mackie created such wonderful gowns for cher and carol burnett, didn't he?
ReplyDeleteand I have ALWAYS h8ed "99 luftbalons".
Love Mr Mackie! Not over-keen on Fräulein Gabriele Susanne Kerner, however - certainly not at the time. But nostalgia is as nostalgia does.
DeleteAnd I could have done some very naughty things with Mr McQueen...
Jx
Haven't heard this song in years. (She wouldn't be releasing 99 red balloons into the summer sky anymore I hope!) Bob Mackie, brilliant talent and humor. Steve McQueen... ahhhhhh.
ReplyDeleteIf she released all those balloons these days she'd be done under some environmental pollution law, no doubt. Jx
DeleteOMG! Steve McQueen!!! *fannin mahself* Sugar, you do know how to jump start an afternoon! xoxox
ReplyDeleteBy the by, LOVE Bob Mackie, and as mentioned above "h8ted 99 luftbalons"
I do hope you are fanning yourself with something suitably sequinned, as Mr Mackie might have designed...
DeleteAnd, yes! Steve McQueen in his heyday. Sigh. Jx
Lovely photo but I never liked 99 Red Balloons.
ReplyDeleteThought you'd appreciate the "McQueen nipple"... Jx
DeleteSteve McQueen, so moody, yet accessible.
ReplyDeleteI loved 99 Red Balloons! Happy days!! Despite the cold war; strikes; unemployment; and all that shit.
Sx
It's like Marmite, that song. But yes, it seems odd to think back upon the Cold War days as being somehow better than today - at least they didn't have curfews and lockdowns. Jx
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