Kiki Dee

April, 1975

It's as if she'd been especially designed for the stage: Up close, Kiki Dee seems too tall in her enormous platform shoes. Her motions seem to take too much effort and she worries about her weight. But when she steps into an arena in front of 20,000 people (as she did night after night on the 1974 Elton John tour) and stretches like a cat in her vapor-thin gown, she looks so delicate you'd swear the spotlights were shining right through her. Kiki Dee started out at 16, leaving her home in Yorksh...