Grayson Perry a transvestite. At the age of 15 he moved in with his father's family in Chelmsford, where he began to go out dressed as a woman. When he was discovered by his father he said he would stop but his stepmother told everyone about it and a few months later threw him out. He returned to his mother and stepfather at Great Bardfield. Perry frequently appears in public dressed as a woman, and he has described his female alter-ego, "Claire", variously as "a 19th century reforming matriarch, a middle-England protester for "No More Art", an aero-model-maker, or an Eastern European
Alter Ego (Amanda Lear album) appeared on the Italian compilation "Hits and More" earlier in 1995, "Peep!", the theme tune to Lear's erotic late night TV show of the same name which she hosted on German channel RTL II, and "Angel Love". Despite numerous remixes and promotion on TV, all three singles were unsuccessful in the charts. The album itself only met with limited commercial success and also failed to chart. The album was released in Italy in 1996 with an alternate artwork. In 2001, "Alter Ego" was re-released in Germany with the original artwork as part of the "Golden Dance Classics" series. In 2004,