Marilyn

b. Peter Robinson, 3 November 1962, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Marilyn launched his UK singing career on the coattails of his friend Boy George as England's second cross-dressing pop star. Much photographed in the teenage press, he became a major celebrity in 1983 with the release of ‘Calling Your Name', which became a number 4 hit in the UK charts (many critics suggested it sounded like a Culture Club offcut). The tabloids turned on him with barely-concealed venom. As Marilyn complained later ‘You just expect that, after Danny La Rue and Quentin Crisp and God knows who e...