THE MAKING OF MARILYN

by  Kate  Garner

It was Haysi Fantayzee's Paul Caplan who first saw Marilyn on  his way to stardom by producing

his demos. Marilyn then went abroad with Haysi Fantayzee on  publicity trips to get a quick 

grounding in how the business  operated. Kate Garner has watched him mature into  a fully

fledged pop personality. Having helped to  push him out of the nest. Kate explains why Marilyn

couldn't be anything else but a star...

Interview by Debbi Voller

"I met Marilyn for the first time three  years  ago. I was  taking photographs

at the  Embassy Club in London and he came up  to me  dressed like Marilyn

Monroe in a tight dress.

    "He asked me which magazine  I was working for and I said , 'I don't, I'm

just taking some  pictures of  the dancers'. So he walked  off...

    "The next time we met was at a friend's house. The massively shouldered,

beautiful man answered  the door,  and I  thought.,  oooh! He was all sort of

tanned with  big biceps, and it was Marilyn! He'd been working out in 

California and I didn't realise  it was the same person.

    "The third time, I saw him coming down the escalator at a tube station with

bleached hair and a  big ballgown on - in the daytime! And he had pumps on

his feet. And again I thought , oooh!

     "He came and stayed with  me and Paul Caplan just before he  went off to

Los Angeles again, and Paul said he'd do a recording with Marilyn if he came

back. Everybody warned us against him, they said he'd  be too much trouble

to work with.

   " He is! But he's worth it. Marilyn was destinated to be a big  star. He's been

training for it since he started dressing up at 15.

   "There's certain people that  I think just are stars, they can't  be anything

else. Marilynn doesn't have  to try and be weird, he is.

   "He's got the right idea. He wants his record company to put up a big wall

poster on the motorway  to advertise his new record. And they should - that's

what they'd do in America. Marilyn's got such  huge visions. I hate people

who  are  content whit a little bit.

   " Marilyn want us to do a recording together - I won't and he keeps  telling

me I'm a fool. He also wants me to do a book of photographs of him as I used

to be a photographer. But that's going  to be hard  work!"