In his own uniquely acid tongue, Paul O'Grady traces the hilarious
tales of life in Irish Catholic Birkenhead that took him from a
virtuous altar-boy ("my first drag") to Britain's best loved
entertainer. It's a life that includes, varyingly, stints in an
abbatoir, as a social worker, in a high-class Mayfair brothel, and
traipsing down to London to chase his dreams. By 23, Paul O'Grady had
been a father, husband, drag queen, gay lover, divorcee, and
degenerate. He did it all with a smile on his face, making a mental
note to register the whip-smart one-liners that would later inform
his star-studded path from the fringes of comedy to the heart of the
British establishment, first as his own brilliant comic creation Lily
Savage, then, triumphantly, as himself. Paul's remarkable childhood
and early life is littered with a dizzying cast-list of rogues,
rascals, lovers, fighters, saints, and sinners. Oh, and one iconic
bus conductress. Told with pathos, love, empathy, and naturally,
biting humor, the story of Paul O'Grady is that of everyman,
everywoman, and inevitably, every drag act ever. He has been rich and
poor, posh and common, straight and gay. He has mixed with stars and
whores and all that's in between, slyly spotting the similarity
between them all. His amazing and riveting life story reminds us that
there is, when all is said and done, a bit of savage in all of us.
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