Well, actually, Robert, to be fair and clear: It was Alex who suggested I post on Billie Holiday. I've always loved her work, especially "Strange Fruit," but I originally meant to post on another group - one that might fit into your category of "head-bangers," as a matter of fact. Alex and I were talking about the group (about whom I will be writing a separate post, hence my not naming it right now) and we realised (okay, he gently pointed out) that it isn't queer, unless I really stretched my imagination to make it so. That's when he suggested Holiday,and here we are.

I'm glad you like Holiday as much as I do and, I believe, as Alex does. But I don't think she needs reintroducing to "another generation" because her popularity has never waned, and I don't think that any "generation" is ever monolithic in its tastes. I know plenty of twenty-year-olds who enjoy both queer punk and Holiday, and plenty of sixty-year-olds who can't bear what some refer to as the classics and who delight in introducing me to the newest and most indefinable genres of music currently being produced.