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George Daniel Long - What Makes A Man A Man

This wonderful song was done by both Liza Minelli and Marc Almond, as well as being performed and written by the legendary Charles Aznavor. It tells the story of a male performer who is also a drag queen, who changes sex before the audience's eyes, starting out as quite amusing, a little like Harvey Fierstein's famous and brilliant film, "Torch Song Trilogy". The song then goes on to explore the alienation and bigotry of being gay in a world where it's not accepted, and in fact caused resentment and being shunned, the very world still remembered by older gay men of the 1950s. My dear friend Paul Savory asked me to do a disco version of the song for my fabulous album, "Disco 2008" and I found the perfect singer to deliver it, star of the "Rat Pack", George Daniel Long, who played Sammy Davis Jr. George, being as openly gay as I am, was glad and proud to sing it. But once I got my teeth into the lyrics, I realised we weren't just covering a song with gay appeal. Here was our chance to do something genuinely worthy, and I only hope our production and our wonderful video, so amazingly edited together by Adi Denney, can do the words of the song justice. It's been a long time since I made a truly gay record. In 1983, "So Many Men So Little Time" was adopted as the anthem of gay America, in a more promiscuous time when AIDS hadn't quite yet hit home. In 1984, "High Energy" took a music form played almost exclusively in gay clubs, and turned it into a worldwide smash, with seven million sales. Now over twenty five years later, here comes my most important gay record of my career. I hope you all like it. If you do, please spread the word, get people to watch it and hopefully, buy the album. The whole album of "Disco 2008" is a return to my own Disco roots, a collection of songs full of soul and camp joyfulness. From Tina Charles singing about being a vamp, to Hazell Dean singing about Trading Him For A Newer Model, to the outrageously larger than life McKoy Sisters, to Sheila Ferguson making her most exuberant disco record ever, to George Daniel Long making his quiet plea for gay acceptance in a cruel and bigoted world.