Sathnam Sanghera

You know, Ray Charles, Mary J. Blige, Aretha Franklin.

These are the biggest names in the history of modern... Smokey Robinson.

And so, yeah, I think he had credibility with black musicians, but he didn't go around saying, I am a black singer like some modern musicians do.

Mentioning no names.

You'll have to share those names at some point.

They're in the book.

One particular name.

I think it's a bunch of those things.

When he always said that, he didn't come out mainly because of his mother.

And he was worried that she would worry about AIDS.

because that's what he would worry about.

And also, people more recently have had go at him saying, you know, Noel Gallagher in particular, saying, you know, we shouldn't listen to him because he kept secrets about himself.

He's got no right to talk about the Iraq war because he was in the closet.

And that's ridiculous because you've got to remember how hard it was to be gay in the 80s.

Let's just go through people who now we see as almost always being out.

Elton John was married.

Kenny Everett was married.

Freddie Mercury, I think he had a girlfriend or was married.

Boy George said he was into both men and women.

Boy George, Neil Tennant was not out.