1. Jayne County went on to become rock's first openly transgender singer, and adopted the stage name Jayne County.
21 Facts About Jayne County
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Jayne County's music has encompassed a number of styles over the course of her career, including glam punk, punk rock, blues rock, and boogie-woogie.
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Jayne County appeared as an actress at Andy Warhol's Factory and had a brief association with David Bowie during the 1970s.
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Jayne County played Lounge Lizard in the second punk rock film, Derek Jarman's Jubilee, and the band performed "Paranoia Paradise", which appeared on the Jubilee Soundtrack album, released by Polydor UK in 1978.
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Jayne County was gender-nonconforming from a young age, wearing makeup at school.
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Jayne County left her hometown of Dallas, Georgia in 1968 to move to New York City, where she became a regular at the Stonewall Inn and took part in the historic riots.
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In 1969, Jayne County was asked by Warhol superstar and playwright Jackie Curtis to appear in her play Femme Fatale.
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Jayne County played both Florence Nitingale and her sister Ethel Nitingale, and the play featured Cherry Vanilla who played a nurse named Tilly Tons.
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In 1972, Jayne County formed Queen Elizabeth, one of the pioneering proto-punk bands.
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Jayne County was signed to MainMan Artistes, David Bowie's management firm, but no records were ever produced.
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Jayne County spent over $200,000 to film the 1974 stage show, "Wayne at the Trucks", but footage has never been released.
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In particular, Jayne County maintains that the song "Queenage Baby" was a prototype for Bowie's song "Rebel Rebel", a claim which is supported by some rock critics.
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In 1974, Jayne County formed Wayne Jayne County and the Backstreet Boys, which recorded three tracks for Max's Kansas City: New York New Wave, a compilation that featured Suicide, Pere Ubu, Cherry Vanilla and The Fast.
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Wayne Jayne County and The Backstreet Boys played regularly at CBGB and Max's Kansas City, where Jayne County was a DJ.
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Jayne County released the EP Electric Chairs 1977, plus a single on Illegal Records.
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When County moved to Berlin in 1979, she changed her stage name to Jayne County, publicly identifying as a woman for the first time.
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In 1983, Jayne County returned to New York where she appeared in the theatrical production Les Girls with Holly Woodlawn.
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Jayne County put a band together to record County's debut studio album Private Oyster.
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Jayne County recorded the album Goddess of Wet Dreams at Twilight Studios in Salford in 1993, followed by Deviation recorded at The Cutting Rooms in Crumpsall, Manchester in the autumn of 1994.
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In 2018, Jayne County debuted a retrospective show of visual art at Participant, Inc, a gallery in New York City.
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Jayne County's autobiography was republished by Serpent's Tail in May 2021.