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LISTEN: Joan Armatrading’s 1979 ode to drag queens is somehow even more relevant today
Songfacts interview, she had just seen someone off to the airport when she decided to go for an extended taxi ride around New York. “I was talking to the taxi driver and he says, ‘Have you ever seen…’ whatever this place was in New York. And, I said, ‘No, I haven’t.’ So, he took me to this place, and it’s a view that I’ve never seen before because I don’t even know where it was, so I can’t even say to somebody, ‘Take me there again.’” One stop led to another, and Armatrading ended up around 42nd Street and Broadway where she saw gay men dressed up in their “Rosie gear.” “There were all these gay guys and they were in their little shoes and their little shorty shorts.