Lena Zavaroni with Max Bygraves on her 1982 TV series. Lena is brilliant in this number with Max and this is so funny! Max was a great entertainer ! By The Lena Zavaroni Tribute Fund, Nonprofit
It's lovely going down memory lane Lena was truly a wonderful singer in her day when I saw her on top of the pops age ten singing mama it made me very happy and it still does to this very day
Max retired to Australia and my visit to Brisbane from Sydney took me through surfers Paradise where MacX lived with his wife on our way back to Sydney but I remember surfers paradise long beach with its silver sand when the town just began to grow during 1968.
The thing about anorexia is that the people who suffer from it become so obsessed with looking thin that they lose sight of the fact that the disease makes them look 10 or 20 years older than they are. Lena was 18 or 19 here and she looks 30.
She was not joking before he came on. He had an ego the size of the Royal Albert Hall. He was not joking either. He used to brag about how great he was. He was unpleasant in real life and refused to have anything to do with his illegitimate children. As for his records, they were bloody awful.
The world was so not PC in them days but it was clear from that video that Lena was under weight. She didn't look happy either, almost like she didn't want to be there.
Lena should not have been working at this point, it’s very obvious she is ill and painfully thin here - who was looking out for her ? and why on earth was that wooden charisma vacuum Max Bygraves so popular back then ? Absolutely baffling
