Marilyn at Planets club, 1981: Peter Robinson lived his life as the Hollywood legend. Photograph by © Shapersofthe80s
➢ Band Aid star Marilyn reveals all
in today’s Daily Mirror:
“ The original Band Aid charity record for Christmas 1984 brought together pop stars who would go on to dominate the charts and become superstars and millionaires. And then there was Marilyn, whose first hit Calling Your Name had reached No 4 in 1983. The girlishly beautiful singer, real name Peter Robinson, was once inseparable from Culture Club star Boy George. He stood out from the likes of Duran Duran, Phil Collins, and Paul Weller with his yellow tracksuit and long bleach-blond hair. And within a few years he had fallen into obscurity.
“After Band Aid lots of things went wrong in my life and I had a nervous breakdown,” he says today, aged 52. “I started smoking heroin and taking shedloads of prescription drugs. I moved into my mum’s house and basically spent 20 years on heroin . . .” / Robinson talks about his obsession with Marilyn Monroe and more at Mirror online
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