Chords for Dusty Springfield - A Gay Icon - Documentary

What love [Bb] so real?
[F] Don't be shy.
[Bb] In 1970, Dusty [Fm] gave an interview to Ray Connolly of the London Evening Standard,
in [F] which she admitted her bisexuality for the first time.
Though many have claimed that she was simply a lesbian,
[Eb] Dusty was adamant that she would not be confined by other people's categories.
I love you again.
[Cm] And now you can be free.
I love you.
_ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ I love [Eb] you.
_ [Bb] _ [Ab] I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
[Bb] I love you.
[Eb] I love you.
I love you.
[Bb] I always felt that [Eb] the whole gay scene was very open.
I mean, there was never any problem with [N] it.
For non-stars, it was absolutely fine.
But I think for the business, nothing's changed.
It's just the same today.
I think there are a lot of people who don't announce their sexuality
because it's not good for business.
Although she has gone public [Ab] on two or three occasions,
I sometimes had the impression that she wished [G] she hadn't.
And although [F] I actually believe she would have been a happier person
if she had been absolutely clear and gotten the subject out of the way,
she obviously couldn't do it for whatever reason.
And I think that was a pity.
I think maybe if she did find out she was bisexual,
I think she would have thought,
oh, that's against my religion.
And I think maybe that's why she became a lapsed Catholic.
And I think it made her more introvert about it.
She was felt guilty.
She always felt guilty. _ _
Well, I don't know if she would have been as brave as Ellen DeGeneres, _
but she certainly was as outrageous, or would like to have been,
I think, as outrageous as Madonna on occasion has been.
I think that outrageousness of certain people really appealed to her. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
[Eb] Dusty's love of the outrageous,
and a public persona that at once suggested and hid her own sexuality,
ensured her status as a gay icon.
[G] A camp whip was to land her in trouble
when she gave a concert in front of Princess Margaret
at the Royal Albert Hall in 1979.
By then, Simon Bell had become her fan.
_ _ _ [Bb] Dusty noticed that the audience really was largely gay.
Certainly the people at the front.
And she [Abm] made a remark that it was nice to see
that the royalty wasn't confined to the box.
And apparently Princess Margaret [G] didn't like that.
I find it very hard to believe
that Princess Margaret hasn't had a sense of humour.
But [Gm] apparently she was not amused.
[E] A letter came from St James's Palace
instructing [G] Dusty that she had to sign an apology
for having insulted the Crown.
Dusty signed it.
I was very surprised.
That proves that she's not quite the hell-raiser
[F] that maybe we would all think.
This is really for all the people [Eb] who have been legends in their time,
I'm sure you know.
_ [G] _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ Sometimes the ladies that I'm speaking of
give too much of themselves.
I don't know.
[C]
The problem is really, _ [Eb] _ all those women.
[F] No matter where they are.
She was a great dramatic singer.
So she fitted into the [G] mould drawn by Judy Garland.
[Ab] _ _ And later, when [D] she wasn't at [Ab] her peak vocally,
there was always that element, was she going to make it or not?
[G] Which was again drawing on the same [Db] source as Judy.
So [Ab] it was easy to see why she was going to be a gay [Ab] icon.
And she made wonderful, heart-rending songs
that _ [B] a certain kind of gay man and woman [F] listen to.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
[Ebm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] That woman up there, [Ab] she's been honest to her soul.
[Eb] She was a diva, and the fact that she wasn't easy to deal with,
and the vulnerability, that appeals to gay people
because they see a bit of themselves [F] in those people
and are a bit tortured.
And she [Db] was a bit tortured.
Put your hands together.
_ Help her along. _ _ _
[Eb] _ Let's laugh [Gb] and sing.
_ [Bbm] _ _
To the [Eb] occasion
There was two things that made [Fm] Dusty a gay icon.
[Bbm] Firstly, the music.
And [N] then, of course, the look. _
Dusty made some remarks in the 1980s.
She said, I must be getting popular again because the drag queens are doing me.
She really liked that, by the way.
She was just camp.
That's what attracted them.
Every drag queen wanted to look like her, didn't they really?
I can't tell you how many parties I've been to
with some drag queen who'd turn up dressed like her.
She was a camp icon.
And also the hand movements, the whole sort of package.
At Dusty's funeral, Lulu told this fantastic story.
Apparently, Dusty developed that
because she used to write the song lyrics on her arm.
Oh, I used to [D] love it where she would go.
I mean, I don't know, I can't remember which song,
but just say it would be,
Where did our love land?
In the middle of nowhere.
Because [N] she liked Forget-Me-Not. _