His mod or “proto-metrosexual” style angered many of his contemporaries, who learnt male etiquette from Barry Crump. But younger music fans – I was 13 years old – were not competing with Mr Lee Grant for the affections of the young women of the nation, so we had no reason to be annoyed that the style icon was setting the standard too high for the more mature young man.
Grant was pictured in the Sunday News (19 March 1967) doing a seven-up hula-hoop performance. He was keeping seven hula-hoops airborne! The newspaper reported that “Go-Go dancing with that gyrating action makes every ‘with it’ teenager a natural for twirling a hula-hoop.”
Bogdan Kominowski has appeared in film and television, including a role in the 1985 James Bond film A View To A Kill, Reilly Ace of Spies and Flash Gordon.
In London, Lee Grant recorded his first single ‘A Little Love And Understanding’ on the Decca label with several backing vocalists including Kiki Dee and Reggie Dwight, who was soon to become famous as Elton John.