1976: "Wotcher, mates!” - Variety star DANNY LA RUE | Nationwide | Celebrity Interview | BBC Archive
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- During the 70s and 80s, Danny La Rue was amongst the highest paid entertainers in Britain, thanks to summer seasons at seaside towns across the UK and beyond.
Whilst performing his latest show in June 1976, he spoke to Bob Wellings about his love of performing, paying the 83% top rate of tax and his particular dislike for the terms drag and camp.
Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, Wednesday 30 June, 1976.
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Used to see Danny walking through Bromley high street to get his train back in the 80s, very down to earth and nice guy.
What a time!
What a bloody legend!
Absolutely, I never saw him live, but always wish I had. Top bloke.
How nice to see this quite in depth interview with a much loved, old school entertainer. He comes across as a gentleman but with a lovely touch of naughtiness.
What a cracking bloke.
A genuinely funny, stylish, classy & down-to-earth man without all the toe-curling OTT over-acting of current day drag & female impersonators.
Until he had a drink. Then he was an obnoxious queen.
@@brianmccaig I think that's when I met him!
We went on holiday to Great Yarmouth that year, and for many more after. I have great memories of there
The depth, maturity and respect of this interview is astonishing by modern standards...
An entertainment interview as a segment would never be treated with such journalistic integrity and gravitas, today - unless it was involving a big scandal and, as a result, it would be handled by some hard news heavyweight.
"hard news heavyweight" but still on the payroll
he was great - a real trooper
'trouper'
What little footage there is of his work at The Establishment Club in the Sixties is very much worth a watch
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I loved Danny
A true ‘star’ of British entertainment of a bygone era.
He was a MAN a true MAN dressing up as a woman
He was never effeminate and did not purport to be
And this is when the BBC were at the ‘top of their game’
Sadly not now
I’m glad I grew up in the 70’s
❤️❤️🙏🙏🏴🏴😃😃😭😭
Nearly spat my coffee out when he mentioned the navy! 😂
He was a tough military guy who served for our country also...👌
@@_Ben4810he was a steward on a repair ship. It’s not like he helped sink the Bismarck….
What a charmer he was,
He was Widow Twanky in Aladin, and called kids onstage at the end of the show.I ended up singing ‘ I ain’t ‘arf proud of my old mum’ onstage.Looking back , she was still in her 20’s !
I have a signed photo of Danny which i got when he came to Bournemouth not long before he died 😢 RIP
Great guy. Worked hard all his life through his ups and downs.
That's actually true.
Having been ripped-off by a couple of con men in the early '80s, he elected to continue performing long after he should have retired in order to pay off the debts incurred by the fraud, rather than claim bankruptcy.
Given the propensity of z-listers today who see bankruptcy as merely 'part of the game', you have to admire his old-school principles.
I thought he was in his late 50s here 😂
In Danny's on words he made dressing up in drag acceptable which paved the way for today's acts, he seemed to be a lovely person too in the interview..😁
There’s zero comparison to the sleazy, deviant ‘drag’ acts of today and what he was doing. He did it for entertainment, today’s acts do it to shock, for their own titillation and to push their agenda.
We seen him in London and he was absolutely brilliant funny lighthearted innuendo and then we stayed for the evening performance which was for adults only and my life it was as blue as the ocean but he was hilarious without any in your face vulgarity
I remember seeing Danny La Rue at a a rugby club in east Birmingham ! didn't have a clue who he was, was more interested in the L shaped pool table. I asked if I could push the stool in to make more space and he obliged.
I was always under the impression that the term DRAG is a theatre acronym for “Dressed as a girl”.
Those kinds of acronyms are rarely true.
That interpretation is a relatively modern one, and was recently repeated by RuPaul apparently.
The wider consensus appears to be that the acronym goes back to at least Shakespearian times, when women were forbidden to act on the stage, thus the term is likely an acronym for “dressed resembling a girl.” It also helps explain the origin of 'drag queen', where female royalty would also have been theatrically portrayed by blokes only.
48?! I genuinely thought he was knocking on 60 here 🤦
Only because of his hair. If he'd coloured it he would look his true age.-
Can't imagine this chappy in the navy.......ooo errr kick my legs up, roll my eyes and pout.
Homosexuality was rife in the forces during WWII. And, in many ways, was accepted. It was only post war that the homosexual witch hunts began in earnest.
FYI, The tax rate during the American Revolution was 3% in the colonies.
1976 vs 2024 UK. Compare and contrast.
No comparison required. I'd go back in a heartbeat.
Danny is an irish actor not english
Who said he was English?
Danny was Irish by birth, but the fact that his OBE wasn't honorary meant that at some point in his life, he must have taken British citizenship. Sir Terry Wogan did much the same before he received his knighthood.
@@stephenspence1192I have Irish heritage, but I was born in England, and am English by birth, and it is how I see myself culturally. If being born somewhere has no standing in who and what you are, then there would never be nations to identify yourself with. He acts English, sounds English, lives in England, uses English humour, enjoys the freedoms of the country even at that time, and carries on the centuries old tradition of female impersonation in the English way.
@@phily8093 Very true!
If Danny La Rue hated what he did being called "drag" he would probably be appalled with how garish and mainstream drag has become today.
What? 83% top rate of tax?!? That'll be a Labour government then.
@ydh6752 ... Yes, correct, people forget about the tax rates in those days and the reason some entertainers went to live abroad. It was a Labour government as you said.
Yeh, unlike the Tories who've sold us off wholesale to the highest bidder then.😂 that's loads better, selling off England by the pound, rather than those orrible taxes, that actually err, fund the NHS. Before the Tories sold it by steath.
Well yes, but Eisenhower's Republican administration in the 50's had an even higher top rate of tax. Very few people reached that bracket, but if you want schools that aren't falling down, libraries, swimming pools, high streets, solvent councils, seas and rivers that aren't full of sewage etc etc these things need to be paid for.
The British electorate have made it clear over 4 decades that they don't want these things.