“Sweet Transvestite” by Rocky Horror Picture Show

"Sweet Transvestite" marks Dr. Frank-N-Furter's grand entrance in The Rocky Horror Show, the song that brought Tim Curry swanning into the original 1973 London stage production, then Los Angeles and New York, and finally the 1975 film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Richard O'Brien wrote the book, music and lyrics, Richard Hartley did the arrangements, and the number has been called the show's first big glam rock aria.

With his servants Riff Raff, Magenta and Columbia hovering around him, Frank introduces himself to the audience and to Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, crowing about where he hails from, what exactly he is, what he's been getting up to and why. It started life as the fourth number, until it traded places with the next one, "Time Warp", so the audience would get that first.

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