Fri 28 Mar 2008 In: International News View at Wayback View at NDHA
London's DJ Tallulah, a well-loved gay club and party DJ for forty years and a regular at Heaven nightclub has died aged 59. DJ Tallulah, 1948-2008 Born in 1948 in Hamburg to English parents, he returned to live with his grandmother in Bexley three years later. He immersed himself in London's underground gay scene as a teenager, and by the early 1970s was established as a leading DJ. He associated with an extraordinary range of well-known people from Kenneth Williams and Danny LaRue to Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell to Leigh Bowery, Boy George and Kiki and Herb. Tallulah's CV reads like a roll call of London gay history from the Earl's Court of the late 60s to Bang in the 70s, Scandals in the 80s to Heaven in the 90s, and Crash and Shadow Lounge in the noughties, not forgetting Studio 54 or any one of a hundred nightclubs which have come and gone, but Tallulah endured. "When I started DJ'ing there were probably about five gay DJs on the scene who were known and mentioned in the very small gay press," Tallulah said last year. "There were no flyers - it was mainly word of mouth. Nowadays there are so many different categories of music. "I think it's important that younger people look into gay culture a little bit more - it's so easy to be forgotten, particularly where music's concerned."