Sammy and I was Dean, of course. We were like kings in those days. Things were going great until that tour of the Greek Islands. You know?”
I nodded.
“Bit of a let-down, was it?” I said.
Ernie scowled and supped more whisky.
“It was a joy to start off with,” he said. “The audience lapped it up night after night.”
“And then some little t**t of a waiter sneaked into the dressing room and took a picture of Lou Lou – the Philippine girl that did Judy Garland in the show – down on her knees, between my legs, playing Come Blow Your Horn. It was all over the tabloids in a week. Turned out that Lou Lou was only 17. And she was actually a he. How the bollocks was I to know? Eh?”
He coughed and knocked back more whisky.
“I was a laughing stock. When we played gigs the audience started shoutin
