Songs about TGs

[Enoch Root]

Wasn't Lou Reed in a relationship with a transsexual woman at some point? I think she's on the cover of some CD or other. They're lying together in bed like the arms of a spiral galaxy.

[Vallin]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

Wasn't Lou Reed in a relationship with a transsexual woman at some point? I think she's on the cover of some CD or other. They're lying together in bed like the arms of a spiral galaxy.

Candy Darling. Famous 70's TG with the Andy Warhol tribe. She's also mentioned ("she was everybody's darling"). She was very pretty, but she died of leukemia before she was 30.

[Florian]

As a newbie I'm reviving this thread with my personal favourite:
The Talk of all the USA by Middle of the Road.
Yes, the people who gave us the unforgivable Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep.

The denoument comes in the last verse:
When I got there before my very eyes I tell you man I got myself a big surprise,
Julie had that something other girls didn't have. She's a woman - no no no!

It's a catchy tune with some maniacal piano playing.

And what about Miss Amanda Jones by The Rolling Stones? Believed to be about Amanda Lear - who gets a few mentions on this site.

Going back to Lola - this was originally banned in the UK. Not becasue it was about a transvestite, but because the lyric said "It tastes just like Coca-Cola". Not allowed to advertise, they had to change it to cherry cola, which didn't exist at that time. Anyone who's ever had cherry cola will probably wish it had been left that way.