Hold On To What You've Got
It wasn’t until I saw and heard Genevieve Waite sing that I decided I could finally write the proper thing about Miss Christine, who died two years ago this fall. Miss Christine was, for the purpose of the rock and roll archives, 1) a GTO, 2) Frank Zappa’s housekeeper when she was barely out of high school, 3) the first person to put Alice Cooper in a dress and 4) friend, influence, confidante, and paramour to many fortunate people — musicians in particular.
Hold On To What You've Got
Lisa Robinson
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Here she comes You’d better watch your step She’s gonna break your heart in two. (From “Femme Fatale” by Lou Reed/ Velvet Underground)
Girls, they are such fragile stuff Girls, they really protect their stuff... (From “Girls” by John Phillips, sung by Genevieve Waite)
It wasn’t until I saw and heard Genevieve Waite sing that I decided I could finally write the proper thing about Miss Christine, who died two years ago this fall. Miss Christine was, for the purpose of the rock and roll archives, 1) a GTO, 2) Frank Zappa’s housekeeper when she was barely out of high school, 3) the first person to put Alice Cooper in a dress and 4) friend, influence, confidante, and paramour to many fortunate people — musicians in particular. In another age she would have been thought of along the lines of such graceful courtesans as Diane de Poitiers, Madame Recamier or more likely, the Contessina di Medici, (who never really slept with any of the Renaissance artists but who were all in love with her just the same — Michelangelo included.. .Botticelli used her for the model of his Venus, etc...)