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Lee worked in the Portsmouth area continuosly in the 1970's at the Bishops Waltham Country Club and in Portsmouth at the Honky Tonk Bar in Southsea and many other local venues.
Who could resist a female impersonator who billed himself as "Lee Sutton, a Near Miss"? Lee, born Leonard Sutch, was very popular in London in the late 60s and early 70s and there were there albums released of his material. On the back cover of his last album (released after his death in 1978) it states that the greatest tribute, in Lee's mind, was paid to him when Danny La Rue asked him to work at his hotel at Christmas 1971 -- the only time that Danny had ever booked another female impersonator.
Lee died in August 1978 at Danny LaRue's country house hotel, Walton Hall in Warwickshire.
"Presenting Lee Sutton, a Near 'Miss'" (Jubilee LP 2073, UK, 1968)
Drag For Camp Followers
"The Best of Lee Sutton (a Near Miss) - Uncensored" (EMI LP 163, UK, 1979)
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