Happy Birthday Divine

10.19.2011
07:23 am

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Amusing
Heroes
Movies
Music
Pop Culture
Queer

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John Waters
Divine
Harris Glenn Milstead

Happy Birthday Harris Glenn Milstead, born today at the Women’s Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1945.

Glenn will be forever in our hearts as the one and only Divine - legendary star of John Waters’ movies, and singer of a slew of Hi-Nrg classics, “I’m So Beautiful”, “Walk Like A Man”, “T-Shirt and Tight Blue Jeans”, and “Shake It Up”.

I was fortunate to see Divine in concert in 1984, and it is a memory I will always treasure. To celebrate what would have been Glenn’s 66th birthday, here are a few of Divine’s hits plus a seldom seen interview from Channel 4’s The Tube.

Posted by Paul Gallagher

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