Author(s): Jayne County with Rupert Smith

Music

Remember Wayne County and the Electric Chairs? Long before drag queens dominated the media, before gender-bending, before punk, even before Stonewall, there was W/Jayne County. From the '60s to the '90s she's been the craziest, the most extreme queen ever to hit a rock 'n' roll stage. She's known and worked with Warhol, Bowie and Derek Jarman, been an actress, a singer and a prostitute. She's the world's original and only rock 'n' roll transsexual, crossing the genders in the full glare of publicity. Man Enough to be a Woman is the wild, hilarious and shameless account of Jayne's life from her cissy-boy childhood in Georgia to her '90s renaissance as a new wave of superstars claim her as their inspiration.