Comic George Logan who soared to stardom as drag artist Dr Evadne Hinge in hit BBC sitcom Hinge and Bracket dies aged 78 – as Benidorm actor Bobby Crush leads tributes
The South Lanarkshire born performer rose to fame within the Seventies and 80s
Floor-breaking drag performer George Logan, who soared to stardom on the BBC for his position within the musical act Hinge and Bracket, has died aged 78.
The cabaret performer achieved fame by taking part in Dr Evadne Hinge in a sequence of TV and radio reveals within the Seventies and 80s.
The South Lanarkshire born comic launched his drag routine with fellow comic Patrick Fyffe on the Edinburgh Pageant in 1974.
The 2 comedians met performing in golf equipment in London within the Seventies, earlier than being picked up by the BBC.
Benidorm star Bobby Crush led tributes to the pioneering performer, with a submit on social media marking the comic’s loss of life.
George Logan (pictured), who soared to stardom on the BBC for his position within the musical act Hinge and Bracket, has died aged 78.
The comic soared to fame as a part of the musical duo ‘Hinge and Bracket’
‘RIP George Logan, also referred to as ‘Dr Evadne Hinge’ of ‘Hinge and Bracket’,’ the Benidorm star mentioned.
‘We appeared in panto collectively on this wonderful manufacturing of on the Theatre Royal Plymouth in 1989… I am saddened by information of his passing at present,’ Crush mentioned.
Of their cabaret act, Hinge and Bracket performed a pair of aged spinsters, in reveals crammed with double entendres.
The duo hosted their very own BBC2 sequence, Pricey Girls, for a few years and had been theatre regulars since debuting the drag act in 1974 on the Edinburgh Pageant.
Broadcaster and creator Gyles Brandreth mentioned it was “one of many nice joys of my life” to script the TV sequence and specials of Pricey Girls with Hinge and Bracket.
‘George Logan was a really humorous, very sensible man – a beautiful musician & an incredible entertainer,’ Mr Brandreth tweeted.
‘His creation, Dr Evadne Hinge, was superbly noticed & gloriously delivered to life along with his stage accomplice Patrick Fyffe because the irrepressible Dame Hilda Bracket. They had been such enjoyable!’
Mr Logan’s double act accomplice Patrick Fyffe, who performed Dame Hilda Bracket, died of most cancers, aged 60, in 2002.
George Logan (pictured) documented his experiences rising up in Scotland within the Nineteen Sixties in his 2015 autobiography ‘A Boy Known as Audrey’
Mr Logan beforehand documented his experiences rising up in Scotland within the Nineteen Sixties, in his autobiography titled ‘A Boy Known as Audrey’.
Within the 2015 guide, he defined his first entry into showbusiness at a pub close to to the place he lived.
‘A homosexual pub close to the place I lived placed on drag acts. In the future, the pianist did not flip up. The landlady mentioned, ‘You play the piano do not you? I am going to offer you two quid to play for the act?’ So I did, and have become the common pianist.
‘As I used to be watching all these acts I realised they had been getting eight quid for doing gags I would heard 100 instances. I believed, ‘I might try this and play the piano on the similar time and maintain the entire 10 quid to myself.
‘That is how I received into present enterprise, though I did not get the ten quid. As I used to be a newbie I received eight for doing each – however eight quid for half an hours work wasn’t unhealthy.’
