Kinky Boots writer Geoff Deane Reads From his Memoir: The Standard podcast

Geoff Deane
David Marsland23 October 2023

This episode of The Standard contains bad language and sex, drug and alcohol references throughout.

Before writing the hit movie 'Kinky Boots,' Geoff Deane had been a chart-busting pop star with Modern Romance in the 1980s.

His memoir 'From Mohair Suits to Kinky Boots' charts his journey from being a Brick Lane Market trader to world touring musician, journalist and Hollywood screenwriter.

For the next three days, The Standard is running extracts from the book, but you can hear Geoff read this chapter right now.

'An Okie from Muskogee' recalls the 80s gay club scene in London and the US, and how Geoff found himself and Boys Town Gang singer Cynthia Manley being pursued by police on a desert road outside Los Angeles.

From Mohair Suits to Kinky Boots: How Music, Clothes and Going Out Shaped My Life and Upset My Mother by Geoff Deane is published by Muswell Press (£16.99) . This audiobook version is published by WG Howes.

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