Texas singer Sharleen Spiteri 明らかにする/漏らすs music 産業 bosses told her to change her looks and she was called a 'lesbian' for 'years' when she first 設立する fame

Sharleen Spiteri has 明らかにする/漏らすd she was told by music 産業 bosses to change the way she looks when she first got 調印するd to a 記録,記録的な/記録する label.

The singer, 56, who is best known as the frontwoman of 禁止(する)d Texas, 認める she has 'never had a 広大な/多数の/重要な 関係 with the music 産業'.?

Sharleen 設立するd Texas while working as a hairdresser in Glasgow, with the 禁止(する)d finding quick success with their debut 選び出す/独身 I Don't Want A Lover.

But when she got her big break, Sharleen 設立する herself 存在 told by 産業 (n)役員/(a)執行力のあるs that she looked like a 'boy' and a 'lesbian'.?

Speaking on the I Never Thought It Would Happen podcast with Chris Difford, Sharleen said:?'From the day I got 調印するd, the MD in my 記録,記録的な/記録する company at 水銀柱,温度計 記録,記録的な/記録するs at that point, I remember he referred to be as the "dodgy boiler. What's the dodgy boiler all about?"?

Sharleen Spiteri has revealed she was told by music industry bosses to change the way she looks when she first got signed to a record label

Sharleen Spiteri has 明らかにする/漏らすd she was told by music 産業 bosses to change the way she looks when she first got 調印するd to a 記録,記録的な/記録する label

The singer, 56, who is best known as the frontwoman of band Texas , admitted she has 'never had a great relationship with the music industry' (pictured with Texas in 1989)

The singer, 56, who is best known as the frontwoman of 禁止(する)d Texas , 認める she has 'never had a 広大な/多数の/重要な 関係 with the music 産業' (pictured with Texas in 1989)

'I was 18 years old and I was like, "you motherf****r." That was my 入り口 into the music 産業. It 現実に worked really 井戸/弁護士席 for me because it gave me the balls and the guts to go, no. I like to think I'm やめる fair.?

'I remember they were like, "you dress like a boy." For years it was like, "she must be a lesbian." Why? Because yo u wear short hair and big boots.'

Sharleen feels many of the 態度s that were around when she was in her late teens are still 現在の but just more 'hidden' now.

She said:?'They still do say that s**t but it's just hidden really 井戸/弁護士席. People say it's better now, it's not, it's just not 権利 in 前線 of your 直面する. It's hidden so 井戸/弁護士席.'?

Texas, which was 設立するd in 1986, is 現在/一般に made up of Sharleen, Johnny McElhone, 同盟(する) McErlaine, Eddie Campbell, Tony McGovern and Cat Myers.?

Sharleen said the 禁止(する)d's hedonistic days are gone and they now all keep a healthy lifestyly.

She said:?'Everyone's really healthy in the 禁止(する)d. Everyone's conscious of, there's a 職業 to do and we're not as young as we used to be.?

'There are still nights where you're in hotels and if there's a piano in the ロビー, there's gonna be a problem. This is going to be a 開会/開廷/会期.?

Sharleen founded Texas while working as a hairdresser in Glasgow, with the band finding quick success with their debut single I Don't Want A Lover

Sharleen 設立するd Texas while working a s a hairdresser in Glasgow, with the 禁止(する)d finding quick success with their debut 選び出す/独身 I Don't Want A Lover

But when she got her big break, Sharleen found herself being told by industry executives that she looked like a 'boy' and a 'lesbian'

But when she got her big break, Sharleen 設立する herself 存在 told by 産業 (n)役員/(a)執行力のあるs that she looked like a 'boy' and a 'lesbian'

Sharleen is 井戸/弁護士席-known for her sense of humour and 以前 明らかにする/漏らすd the 'worst thing' she has ever done as she 株d how she got her own 支援する on a rude 顧客.

In August, she told how she got her 復讐 on a woman who was 'horrible' to staff and made an assistant 'cry' at a Glasgow?salon, where she 以前 worked.

Speak ing to ツバメ Compston and Gordon Smart on the Restless Natives?podcast, Sharleen told how she served spat out food to the unpleasant 顧客.

She explained how the woman would always 需要・要求する that a member of staff fetched her a マグロ roll from a nearby 挟む shop, 主要な to Sharleen's 復讐 陰謀(を企てる).

述べるing it as the worst thing she has ever done, Sharleen told how she once chewed the マグロ and spat it 支援する out into the roll before serving it to the woman.

She 解任するd: 'I know the worst thing I have ever done. When I was a hairdresser there was this woman that used to come in on a Saturday morning as soon as the doors opened.

'She must have been about late fifties or 早期に sixties and she was a 苦痛 in the a**e. She was horrible to everybody.

'This new junior had just started and she made her cry so I said 'Listen, let me show a trick that will make you feel better.'

She said:?'I remember they were like, "you dress like a boy." For years it was like, "she must be a lesbian." Why? Because you wear short hair and big boots'

She said:?'I remember they were like, "you dress like a boy." For years it was like, "she must be a lesbian." Why? Because you wear short hair and big boots'?

'The woman would always send somebody across the road to get her a マグロ roll.

'So when the girl brought the roll 支援する I put a big bit of マグロ in my mouth, chewed it and spat it 権利 支援する into the roll.

'I 削減(する) it for her, took it 支援する up the stairs and watched her eat it. So never, ever be mean to anybody, she made this young girl cry.'

'My 指名する's not Spiteri for nothing,' she quipped.

Before 急に上がるing to fame in 激しく揺する 禁止(する)d Texas, Sharleen worked?at the Irvine Rusk salon in Glasgow.