Cherry Vanilla was another of the Warhol acolytes from New York’s downtown scene to cross the pond and tag along with the punk scene in London.

Before trying her hand at showbiz, Kathleen Dorritie had started out in the early Seventies as a music publicist for David Bowie – a role in which she adopted her own marketing strategy of promising a blowjob to any DJ who would play his music.

In 1974, after making her stage debut alongside Wayne County in Warhol’s London production of Pork, she launched her own music career.

Cherry Vanilla & The Staten Island Band made their debut with a song called Shake Your Ashes on the Max’s compilation album in 1976, the same year she published her art book, Pop Tart, and moved to London.

Taken under the wing of Miles Copeland, she was signed to RCA and started gigging on the punk circuit with a band that included Miles’s brother Stewart on drums, Gordon ‘Sting’ Sumner on bass, and Henry Padovani on lead guitar.

The deal was that Cherry would pay them £15 a night for their services and equipment, plus a support slot with their own band – The Police.

None of them played on this, Cherry’s debut single in September 1977, shamelessly trying to cash in on the scene, or on her debut album Bad Girl which remains, almost entirely unplayed, somewhere in my vinyl collection.

In the Eighties she worked with Vangelis, appearing on an album and running his American office, and Roger Waters, before trying to revive her career in the Nineties with a couple of singles, Fone Sex and Techno Sex, in collaboration with Man Parrish. In 2010 she published her autobiography, Lick Me: How I Became Cherry Vanilla.