……BILLY SUTER……
EVERY now and then l dip into scrapbooks that piled up during my 24 years as Arts Editor of The Mercury newspaper in Durban and, just for fun, dig out reviews and interviews from yesteryear.
Today we go back to August of 1997 when The Mercury’s Arts page carried a fun interview with singer-actor Michael de Pinna, then famous for his popular series of “Yebo Go-go” TV adverts, in which he had a ponytail and wore leopard skin-patterned underwear.
De Pinna, now a popular vocal coach in Gauteng, discusses everything from the oddest thing a fan ever said or did to him, to whom, back then, he considered the greatest entertainers, alive or dead. He also discusses his ideal holiday, unfulfilled ambitions and things he would rate as ‘Very Tacky’.
And he chats about if he would ever pose naked for a magazine…
.....SoSuterBill..... 