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KATE GARNER SPEAKS It was Haysi Fantayzee's Paul Caplan who first saw Marilyn on his way to stardom by producing his demos. Marilyn then went abroad with Haysi Fantayzee on publicity trips to get a quick grounding in how the business operated. Kate Garner has watched him mature into a fully fledged pop personality. Having helped to push him out of the nest, Kate explains why Marilyn couldn't be anything else but a star... Interview by Debbi Voller "I met Marilyn for the first time three years ago. I was taking photographs at the Embassy Club in London and he came up to me dressed like Marilyn Monroe in a tight dress. "He asked me which magazine I was working for and I said , 'I don't, I'm just taking some pictures of the dancers'. So he walked off... "The next time we met was at a friend's house. The massively shouldered, beautiful man answered the door, and I thought., oooh! He was all sort of tanned with big biceps, and it was Marilyn! He'd been working out in California and I didn't realise it was the same person. "The third time, I saw him coming down the escalator at a tube station with bleached hair and a big ballgown on - in the daytime! And he had pumps on his feet. And again I thought , oooh! "He came and stayed with me and Paul Caplan just before he went off to Los Angeles again, and Paul said he'd do a recording with Marilyn if he came back. Everybody warned us against him, they said he'd be too much trouble to work with. " He is! But he's worth it. Marilyn was destinated to be a big star. He's been training for it since he started dressing up at 15. "There's certain people that I think just are stars, they can't be anything else. Marilyn doesn't have to try and be weird, he is. "He's got the right idea. He wants his record company to put up a big wall poster on the motorway to advertise his new record. And they should - that's what they'd do in America. Marilyn's got such huge visions. I hate people who are content with a little bit. " Marilyn want us to do a recording together - I won't and he keeps telling me I'm a fool. He also wants me to do a book of photographs of him as I used to be a photographer. But that's going to be hard work!" Thanks to Viscera at the Marilyn site THIRD EYE for permission to reproduce the article above. (See the LINKS section for a link to THIRD EYE.) Marilyn's and Kate's friendship later dissolve; in an interview transcribed on Viscera's site, Marilyn was asked who he would lock in the Tower Of London. He replied, "Kate Garner, because she's evil." Oh DEAR!!! |