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Around this time,  I did some recording at the Towlouse Studios with Pete Townshend and an androgynous woman in a trouser suit called Ronny.  She  recorded her own single ´If You  WQant Me To Stay´  and then we did a cover version together of ´The Lady Is A Tramp´,  I thought  she was great,  but a lot of people thought she was just a copy of Grace Jones.  I think maybe she had a bit too much attitude.  She was very Parisian, very stuck up, but actually a very nice person.  In the video,  I wore a specially made corset and dress by Anthony Price and a white wig from Savile Row.  Because Ronny looked like a man,  I had to play the part of the woman.  In the end,  the project was shelved,  but I´ not sure if working with Pete was such a good idea.  He had a heroin problem and if I´m completly honest I suppose I started dabbling in heroin more regularly around then.                                                                                                             STEVE STRANGE - BLITZED

Meanwhile Rusty Egan tried to promote his own version of the deadpan Thirties chanteuse in the androgynous,  trouser- suited  shape of Ronny,  a sort of Aryan-looking Parisian version of Grace Jones.  One single  ´If You Want Me To Stay´,  produced by Egan and Midge Ure,  was released in april 1981 and was roundly  ignored.  With Pete Townshend,  they also recorded a duet of Steve Strange and Ronny doing ´The Lady  Is A Tramp´,  and shot a video where Strange played the lady in an Anthony Price corset and dress.  But neither song or video was ever released.        DAVE RIMMER - THE LOOK

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