He was noted for his impersonations of Shirley Bassey, Eartha Kitt, Lena Horne, Cleo Laine and Dorothy Squires in full drag and no mike and was booked into the working men’s clubs throughout the North of England as well as the cabaret club circuit.
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Alan "Al" Pillay also known as "Al Pillay" (born 22 August 1959), the star of Eat the Rich is a person of many names and two genders, starring in The Comic Strip Presents as Alan Pellay playing Himself in Gino (Episode 10) as Alana Pellay playing Herself in The Bullshitters (Episode 13) and, finally, as Lana Pellay playing Mary in the feature movie The Supergrass.
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During a lull in his drag career while he was managing the Black Market Café in Levenshulme and renting a room from Coronation Street actor, Alan Rothwell he was introduced to Kay Carroll and Mark E Smith of The Fall (band).