Transformations always fascinate me. Back in 1991 author Nesta Wyn Ellis bestrode the world of British biography with her life story of the then prime minister John Major. The two had clicked when she interviewed him for the now defunct glossy Woman's Journal. So she was his natural Boswell when he most improbably made it into Number 10: her book was the first to suggest that the Major marriage was no tropical fishtank, among other things. The book made her famous. She appeared on the primetime chatshow Wogan and made the Sun and Sunday Times front pages - it was rumoured that Norma (Mrs M) was most upset by the bio. Hurtle into the Noughties and Nesta has left behind the world of British politics with which she was so intimate and pursued her dream to be a free spirited chanteuse. In this rare footage, she busks in the Métro de Paris. She has also appeared in numerous city clubs there and made a movie. I am bedazzled.
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