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Complete career collection of THE cult star of the 80s…
Divine undoubtedly contributed to the LGBT narrative contained within pop culture. His consistently fluid (and of course lewd) representation of sexuality and gender challenged the theatrics of 1980s pop music.
Created in collaboration with Pope of Trash film maker
John Waters, Divine was a brash, confident persona. After the success of his partnership with Waters, Divine would branch out with New York performer/producer Bobby O to launch a musical career that boasted a dizzying angle on Hi-NRG.
Divines first charting single Native Love Step By Step (NL #28) remains one of his most frenetic hits. Shoot Your Shot (DE #15/NL #7) is Bobby Os brassy brand of club music mock-sexualised at full tilt. Love
Reaction (UK #65) gloriously appropriates New Orders Blue Monday.
Song writing/producing trio Stock, Aitken & Waterman continued the success of hi-NRG synthpop, giving Divine one of his biggest hits in 1984s You Think Youre a
Man (AUS #8/NL #32/UK #16) and Im So Beautiful (GER #38 / UK #52) which is perhaps most reminiscent of Divines earlier work with John Waters. Walk Like A Man and Twisting The Night Away continued the hit streak and kept Divine in the spotlight before his untimely death in 1988.
