How, after all these years could I tell the friends that I grew up with the news!
After all you could tell 'by the way that I walk and the way that I talk' that I'd been hiding behind a facade - but now it was time to come out!
I'm a Bee Gees fan.
My gosh - that feels better. What a release . . .
Stayin Alilve, Night Fever, More Than A Woman, Tradegy, How Deep Is Your Love even Spicks and Specs or for the more hardcore of us who simply want to hear their harmonies - the Frankie Valli "Grease" or Yvonne Elliman "If I Can't Have You" or Samantha Sang's "Emotion".
The mere thought Barry's falsetto accompanying Travlota's opening scene in Saturday Night Fever is enough to get any Bee Gee's fan blood flowing quicker than you can say Tony Monaro.
So Whether you're a brother
Or whether you're a mother . . .
I'm a woman's man, no time to talk
The son of a former Royal Air Force trumpeter, Elton (sorry - Sir Elton) John has been called "the Liberace of Rock and Roll", for his flamboyant nature and ecentric behaviour yet few performers could match his musical longevity or popularity.
Born Reggie Dwight, Elton was raised by his mother having fortunately be saved the trauma of his parents divorce, and was playing the piano by the time he was four.
Having won a scholarship to the prestigious Royal Academy of Music at 11, he studied for several years, before leaving to pursue his career in music and forming his first band Bluesology, in 1961, when he was 14.
By 1965, the band was getting paying gigs. In 1966, Dwight tried out as a singer for both King Crimson and Gentle Giant -- neither band wanted him -- and auditioned for Liberty Records -- which didn't want him either.
It wasn't until a record company gave Dwight some throw away lyrics penned by the then unheralded Bernie Taupin that it all started to come together.
While his first album is best left for collectors - his second included "Your Song", which shot into the top ten in both the U.S. and U.K. and the legend was born.
Pegging 30 top 40 hits between 1970 and 1982, with at least one top 40 single every year until 1996, Elton John has had seven consecutive #1 albums.
In and out of rehab, fighting drug addiction and alcoholism for most of the 80's John was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat in the latter part of the 90s, and had a pacemaker installed.
And while both his lifestyle and the hit facotry has slowed over the past decade - John is still undeniably an icon of his era.
AC/DC are an Aussie icon – in fact ask just about any music lover anywhere in the world what they know about AC/DC and the first thing you’re likely to encounter is a little air guitar work and some serious head banging.
Formed in Sydney back in 1973 the group is offically classified as hard rockers though purists will argue vehmently that they were in fact pioneers of heavy metal