Michael Harte

This is who you are and this is how it's going to be.

She always refused that.

And actually she came up with massive, massive criticism for it, but continued on her course.

And to this day, it's the same.

She would talk about her age, and some people would say, you can't be a pop star now, you can't sing about those things at this age.

And she just refuses to accept that.

And sometimes I think it goes a long way.

When I see the footage, I can see the connection between her and the LGBTQ community as well, because...

they were seeing somebody, especially in the early 90s, who was being kind of vilified for just trying to be themselves, for being themselves.

You know what I mean?

And so they saw her go through all that criticism.

And what they also saw was somebody who then carried through and stuck to her guns and said, I don't care what you think.

And I always kind of thought about the first lyric in...

I should be so lucky, which is like in my imagination, there is no complication.

And that's so true.

And it kind of speaks to the whole story, which is like in your mind, who you want to be and who you are is very simple.

But it's the world around you that makes it much more complicated.

But in your imagination, it's much simpler.

I hate speaking on her behalf but yeah I mean she has to be because of what she's gone through I think you need to have that steeliness to get through the huge falls that she had and you know she was diagnosed in 2005 and probably thought she would never sing again but her kind of you know her resilience to get on stage again

it's inbuilt in her and her fans are everything to her and she just when she and I noticed when when I talked to her she would