‘The more famous I got, the bigger my beehive got’: how Mari Wilson made Just What I Always Wanted

The Guardian 7 h United Kingdom

‘I was trying to bring back some glamour. The backcombed hair was like architecture really. It took more than 45 minutes to style’ Just What I Always Wanted had already been in our live set, but with different verses. When we’d gone on David Essex’s Showcase earlier in 1982, in the middle eight I sang “A wink from Wilbur, a kiss from Kurt, don’t tell Hank, he might get hurt” – all names of my back

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