Jake Shears: ‘I just found out I’m related to Dolly Parton!’

The former Scissor Sisters frontman on Cher’s lifeline, go go dancing and finally going solo

Jake Shears is hungover. The night before our interview in the bar of a fancy west London hotel, the former frontman of the multi-million-selling glam-pop practitioners Scissor Sisters, performed his first UK solo show at nightclub Heaven. He stayed up until 3am, knocking out renditions of his former band’s hits at a piano bar he can’t remember the name of with some friends he’d probably struggle to pick out of a lineup. It’s 4pm now but his eyes suggest he’s not been up long. “I’ll have a Negroni with vodka, please,” he says to the waiter with a smile.

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