Jayne Payne Counter-cultural survivor

● THE OTHER VOLUNTEERS in the Kidderminster “Meet ‘n’ Greet” charity shop have long suspected that there is something unusual about their colleague Jayne. “You can just see”, as one of them recently remarked, “that she hasn’t led what you might call an ordinary life. ”For her own part, Jayne — in her mid-sixties now, with a worn old face and incongruous raven-black hair — enjoys stimulating this curiosity. Her admission, a couple of weeks back, when someone donated a bundle of Adam and the Ants CDs to the music shelf, that “I used to know him when he was called Stuart” caused an absolute sensation. WHAT DID JAYNE ONCE DO that is so remarkable? Well, 47 years ago she was a member of the socio-musical grouping known as “the…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2023

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