At that point I wasn’t sure about [my sexuality]. There were a lot of us in the world that had yet to figure it out. What do you think, they were f*cking in front of us? They were just an audience. A ...

Fifty years later, i’s hard to hear “Mandy” — Barry Manilow’s first No. 1 that topped the charts in January 1975 — any other way. But the woman who came and gave without taking was originally named ...