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Tulip overload!

Another weekend spent pottering in the lovely sunshine in the extensive gardens here at Dolores Delargo Towers - "moving-on" the rapidly-growing baby fuchsias we brought back from Essex earlier this month, re-potting more of the bigger plants, and giving our houseplants and some of the outdoor pelargoniums a good water; all the time listening to the joys of BBC Radio 2.

Among the ill-assorted birthdays today - including MegaBabs, already featured over at the Dolores Delargo Towers Museum of Camp - there's the wonderful Shirley MacLaine, Jean-Paul Gaultier (his 70th), Paula Yates, Tony Visconti, Anthony Trollope, John Williams [the guitarist], Aidan Gillen, Clement Freud, Jill Ireland, Marshal (Phillipe) Pétain, Nigel Harrison, Brian Paddick, Kelly Clarkson, Tommy Docherty - ahem - "Lord Haw Haw" William Joyce...

...and Captain Sensible!

Here's his classic solo hit - a perfect piece of "Sunday Music", you will agree:

Captain Sensible - Happy Talk

Every place I've ever been, every place I'm going to...

As the countdown continues to World Pride on Saturday - and the stupid stories and mud-slinging occupy gay news sites - I thought I'd take us on another trip down memory lane...

It is forty years since the first Gay Pride rally was held in the centre of London - but what were the significant Number 1 songs through the decades at this Gay Xmas time of year?

1972 - Take Me Bak 'Ome by Slade [in an exceptionally odd clip from Spanish TV - wtf are those girl dancers doing?]:

Slade - Take Me Bak 'Ome

1977 - So You Win Again by Hot Chocolate [featuring the very "proud" Mr Errol Brown and his incredible performing trousers again]:

Hot Chocolate - So You Win Again

1982 - Happy Talk by Captain Sensible:

Captain Sensible - Happy Talk

1987 - It's A Sin by Pet Shop Boys [Highly appropriate, methinks!]:

Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin (Live in Rio, 1994)

1992 - Abba-esque (EP) by Erasure [You really can't get much more camp than this!]:

Erasure - Take a Chance on Me

1997 - Ecuador by Sash! [actually at #2, held off the top slot by that pompous twat Puff Daddy, but I'll never play I'll Be Missing You on this blog.] [I remember dancing my tits off to this one, in a dance tent in Clapham, no less...]:



2002 - A Little Less Conversation by JXL [Possibly the very first song featuring Elvis I ever liked]:

Elvis vs JXL - A Little Less Conversation

2007 - The Girls by Calvin Harris [It was actually bloody Rihanna and her Umbrella at #1, but I can't stand that.] [I am not much of a fan of Mr Harris's song tbh, so instead here's the much more "gay-friendly" cover version by Dragonette]:

And today? Bloody Will.i.am (and I most certainly am not playing him!). In fact, I cannot see anything in today's chart that I would even want to listen to, let alone feature here. How sad...