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of a movie to be scripted by Christopher Isherwood.
‘I’m supposed to be living in Switzerland – but I don’t
know how long that will last,’ he told Radio One’s
Stuart Grundy. ‘I’ve got to come back to Berlin.’ Later
that same evening, on 10 April, nightclub entertainer
Romy Haag turned up for his show at Berlin’s
Deutschlandhalle.
Nearly six feet tall and drop-dead gorgeous,
Romy’s deliciously indefinable sexuality embodied
the vibrant, fragile glamour of pre-war Berlin that
Christopher Isherwood had so compellingly
recorded in the books that David had been reading
in the last few weeks. Born Edouard Frans
Verbaarsschott in The Hague, Romy had opened
her own nightclub, Chez Romy Haag, just two years
earlier, and established herself as Berlin’s most
glamorous woman, despite the accident of having
been born a man. Romy brought a posse of her
dancers and entertainers to the show; they made a
dazzling spectacle, and according to Haag, ‘We
looked at each other and that was that. The next day
he had a concert in Hamburg and he was four hours
late because he didn’t want to leave.’ Thereafter,
Romy became one of the many friends with whom
David would spend hours chatting on the phone late
into the night.
The European tour dates were a sensation; the
set itself, opening with a grinding, thrilling version of
‘Station to Station’, was sprawling but tough,
seemingly anticipating the musical changes that
were in the air in 1976. Yet it was David’s
emergence from nearly two years in American limbo