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[Audio] [Books] [Miscellaneous] [Video/DVD]
Books
At My Mother's Knee... and other low joints |
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It's the book we've all been waiting for, Paul's OFFICIAL autobiography covering his life until he was 18.
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Christine's Garden |
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Contains a paragraph about Christine's appearance on The New Paul O'Grady Show on 13 December 2006 and how it was the first time Paul had discussed gardening on his show.
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Des Lynam - I should have been at work! |
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Des mentions a time when Paul travelled by tube to Broadcasting House to guest on his radio show and they made out he had done so as Lily.
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A Young Man's Passage |
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Julian Clary gives his thanks to Paul in his autobiography. There are also references to him in the book and a photo.
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The Rabbit Whisperer |
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This ultimate guide to caring for a rabbit. Features a chapter entitled 'Animal Crackers' in which Paul relates his love of animals and how he has a number of tame rabbits on his farm.
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What's It All About? |
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Cilla Black's long awaited autobiography, published to coincide with her celebration of 40 years in showbiz, contains lots of references to her great mate Paul and two pictures.
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The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre |
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This book by Laurence Senelick traces the origins and variations of theatrical cross-dressing through the ages and across cultures and is the first ever cross-cultural study of theatrical transvestism. It examines tribal rituals and shamanic practices in the Balkans and Chinese-Tibet, the gender-bending elements of Greek and early Christian religion, the homosexual appeal of the boy actor on the traditional stage of China, Japan and England, the origins of the dame comedian, the principal boy, the glamour drag artiste and the male impersonator artists such as Lily, David Bowie, Boy George, Charles Ludlam, Dame Edna Everage and Julian Clary.
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I Am What I Am |
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The story of cabaret star, Frank 'Foo Foo' Lammar. Frank tells how he was born into a working-class family in Manchester and worked hard to become the owner of Foo Foo's Palace, a nightclub and favourite haunt for celebrities. He also discusses his battle with cancer and his charity work.
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The Jokers |
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Trevor Leighton's photography relies on capturing the way people look at a certain time and the way they reveal themselves through their expressions. And no one would argue that those who reveal themselves the most this way are the comedians - the jokers - that have brought smiles to all our faces in recent years. The Jokers compiles 100 of Trevor Leighton's portraits of those who make us laugh - not just the men and women who make their livings from comedy, but those who have that uncanny knack of being funny in any given situations. From hardy perennials like Rowan Atkinson and John Cleese to modern favourites like Jack Dee, Vic Reeves and, of course, Lily, The Jokers views like a compendium of British comedy.
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The Girl With The Glasses |
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Maggie Stredder of the Vernon's Girls biography which contains a chapter called 'The Fourth Vernon's Girl – Lily Savage'. Maggie grew up just around the corner from Paul. Paperback.
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Star Dogs |
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Author and celebrity pet expert, Kevin Horkin, delved into the world of show business to reveal the canines behind the personalities of over thirty different celebrities including Sir Cliff Richard, Wendy Richards and William Roache. Lily features with Buster.
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Looking At Life |
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| Contains a picture of Lily in Blackpool dedicated "To Zoe's Place Lots of Love Lily Savage". Joe Pyle, a boxer turned film producer/recording manager, has written this book of advices, originally intended as a personal tribute to family and friends, based on his life's experience. It contains advice for life and living for any reader. The advices and poems are illustrated by celebrities and proceeds of the book will be donated to the babies hospice, Zoe's Place. Celebrities contributing to the contents include: Michael Winner, Elizabeth Hurley, Sir Elton John, Cilla Black, Richard Branson, Chris Tarrant, Lord Jeffrey Archer, Ruby Wax, Lily Savage, Dame Barbara Cartland and more. All proceeds go to Zoe's Place baby hospice, Liverpool. Paperback.
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Mersey Stars |
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| Here's a celebration of the wide stream of entertaining talent that has flowed from Merseyside this century - the fascinating stories of more than 60 stars who have made a major contribution nationally. Includes Lily, Cilla Black, The Beatles, Rex Harrison and Ken Dodd. By Michael Smout.
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Birmingham Hippodrome 1889-1999 |
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Picture of Lily in the Pantomime 'Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs'. Produced for the Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre Trust. By Fred Norris.
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a sort of A-Z thing |
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| For the first time in print, Birkenhead's favourite daughter reveals all! How to get rid of those unsightly bags under your eyes, that stain on your duvet cover or even how to poison your husband - it's all here in Ms Savage's very own guide to life, a book for the millennium that no man, woman or beast can afford to be without. The award-winning actress, single mother and sex symbol passes on the benefit of her years of experience. Warm, witty, occasionally vicious but never boring, Lily tells it like it is. Nothing and no one is safe. Reissued in paperback.
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a sort of A-Z thing Promo |
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8 page promotional guide plus open out cover for the book 'a sort of A-Z thing', which had a working title of 'Lily Savage - Her True Story'.
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All Woman Jazz: A Collection |
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Paperback.
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Mad About Dogs |
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Magazine by the ex-Blue Peter presenter Peter Purves in which Lily speaks about Buster.
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Who's a Pretty Boy Then? |
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| One Hundred & Fifty Years of Gay Life in Pictures This glossy, large-format, 224-page hardback, by James Gardiner brings together more than 600 black and white photographs depicting homosexual history. All famous gays, including Rock Hudson, Ivor Novello and Quentin Crisp, are featured as well as those not in the public eye. The photos are interspersed with fascinating newspaper clips, saucy seaside postcards, covers of gay books, magazines and theatre posters. Reissued in paperback.
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The Brookside Files |
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| Brookside enjoys a reputation as the most controversial soap on screen, because of its contemporary, issue-based storylines. In The Brookside Files, the residents of Brookside Close describe in their own words the major events of the last two years, while the team that creates Brookside provides an exclusive behind-the-scenes perspective. Picture of Lily at the grand opening of Grants restaurant. By Geoff Tibballs.
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The Big Breakfast |
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| Eggs On Legs II was the second tour of The Big Breakfast and this tour book contained a two page spread, entitled 'On the Bed with Lily and Vanessa', showing various guests who had been interviewed in the boudoir.
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Hollywoodn't - A Queer Postcard Book |
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| Bonnie and Clyde, Greta Garbo, Baby Jane and Clark Gable, Laurence Jaugey-Paget has captured and cross-dressed them all - and more! Provocative, witty, stunning, or just camp, this collection of 30 postcards subverts classic 1920's-1950's Hollywood images from a different perspective. Lily portrays Baby Jane Hudson. "Witty and extremely beautiful - especially the one of me!" - Lily Savage.
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  "What's the matter Blanche, ain'tcha hungry?", 1962  "You mean after all this time, we could have been friends?", 1962 |
filth! |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about sex is revealed in filth!, the totally over the top and under the front bottom book featuring the greatest comic talent in the country sending up and going down on every sexual taboo in one hilarious skit after another. Nude, rude, uncensored, gratuitously filthy and sheet stainingly funny.
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The Bill - The First Ten Years |
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| The inside story of Britain's most successful Police series. Contains a black & white picture of Roxanne. By Hilary Kingsley. "One glamorous informant who would never have complained about Roach was Roxanne, who loved him truly. But Roach, who wasn't generally that fussy about the pedigree of his woman friends, wasn't interested. Even he spotted Roxanne wasn't all woman. She was a transvestite played by Paul O'Grady, who is now the successful drag artist behind the monstrous Lily Savage. Paul recalls that he was excited to receive a call from 'The Bill', his first television appearance. 'But I thought they wanted me to play a copper, so I had my hair cut very short and spoke in my lowest voice. When I found out they wanted me to play this tranny, I was outraged. But they agreed to let me play her as a proper gangster's moll, to give her some substance, meat and potatoes, and in the end I enjoyed it. But after the episodes were screened I was persecuted! I was offered transvestite roles everywhere. Personally I think I'm hopeless as a transvestite. You'd need to be Helen Keller not to notice that I'm a bloke.'"
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Drag: A History of Female Impersonation in the Performing Arts |
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| Men have been dressing as women on stage for hundreds of years, dating back to the thirteenth century when the Church forbade the appearance of female actors but condoned that of men and boys disguised as the opposite sex. Forms of travestism can be traced back to the dawn of theatre and are found in all corners of the world, notably in China and Japan. In recent years, of course, drag has witnessed a dramatic and widespread revival. Newsday recently observed, People are talking about all those fabulous heterosexual film idols who now can't seem to wait to get tarted up in drag and do their screen bits as fishnet queens. Drawing on a cinematic tradition popularized by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot, Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie) and Robin Williams (Mrs. Doubtfire) have each delighted mainstream audiences with their portrayals of women. Even former drag queens have experience newfound fame; witness the recent popularity of the late Divine, renowned for her oddly compelling appearances in underground John Waters films. Music, too, has been profoundly influenced by drag sensibility, from David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the Rocky Horror Picture Show to Boy George and RuPaul (the self- proclaimed Supermodel of the World). Tracing drag tradition from the Golden Age of stage transvestism during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I in England to the current quasi-drag inclinations of American grunge bands, Drag is an entertaining overview of this popular and complex medium. Written by Roger Baker, this book contains one picture of Lily from 'Gay Times' and a write-up: "By 1990 Lily Savage had established himself as the most popular drag act on the British gay scene. Paul O'Grady was a character actor, and Lily Savage a working class Birkenhead single mother. Terry Sanderson had compared O'Grady with Alan Bennett – both have been 'mining a rich apparently inexhaustible seam of Northern childhood memories. Mainly memories of strong or eccentric women. Hasn't Bennett in fact been doing a drag act with his typewriter?' Lily is a comic heroine for many gay men. A gutsy, gritty and witty woman who is neither grotesque nor glamorous. Whilst satirising the brutal world from which gay men often have to flee, her experiences and entanglements with men resonate with our own. Lily is now more likely to be seen at the Edinburgh Festival and in small theatres, or doing television and radio guest spots, than on the gay scene where, one can't help feeling, she really belongs."
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Broadcasting It |
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| An Encyclopaedia of Homosexuality on Film, Radio and TV in the UK 1923-1993. When did lesbianism come to Ambridge? When did the first mincing stereotypes appear on British television? When was the word 'homosexual' first uttered on air, by whom and by whose authority? What coundn't Mrs Dale talk about in her Diary? When was the first same-sex kiss on television and the first lesbian bed scene on radio? Who was the lesbian who became part of Dixon of Dock Green's family in the 1950s - and who was she based on? How many male lovers did Steven Carrington have in Dynasty? What is a 'jockey shorts' version? Who said 'Hello, honky tonks!'? This wide-ranging book answers these and many other questions in its exploration of an alternative, continuous history that has existed for over seventy years within mainstream mass entertainment. Savage, Lily [Paul O’Grady] (195? - )
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The Bill |
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Taking a look behind the scenes of the television police series of the same name, this book offers profiles of the characters and of the actors who portray them, a catalogue of anecdotes and a view of the real Sun Hill. By Tony Lynch. Paperback.
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Men In Frocks |
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Chronicling the drag scene in the early 1980's, this book contains excerpts on Adrella, Dave Dale, The Harlequeens, Regina Fong and many more. There is no text on Lily but there are two very early pictures.
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