Beauty Queen (song)
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Little Nell's
Nell Campbell
"Little" Nell Campbell is an Australian actress, club owner and singer.-Early life:She was born in Sydney, to Ruth and Ross Campbell, a writer, who called her "Little Nell" in his family life column in the Sydney Daily Telegraph...

 fourth and final single was released in 1980 by Charisma Records
Charisma Records
Charisma was a record label founded by former journalist Tony Stratton-Smith in 1969. Manager for The Nice, the Bonzo Dog Band and Van der Graaf Generator at the time, Stratton-Smith was unable to find a record company willing to release an album by one of his favourite groups so he founded his own...

subsidiary, Pre Records, for the movie The Alternative Miss World, a documentary about a British drag pageant of the same name. The film's title was changed to I Wanna Be A Beauty Queen for its American home video release. Nell is in the opening sequence of the film, in which she performs this song. The pictures featured on the front of the picture sleeve are taken from her appearance in the film, and the back of the sleeve features an assortment of some of the contestants of the pageant in the film.
The b-side features Nell accompanied only by a piano singing a slowed down version of the song.

On the actual record, in the inner groove where identification numbers are usually pressed into the vinyl, both sides have the following pressed into the disc: On side A, "A GREAT FILM ANDREW" is pressed, and side B says "BUY SOME FOR LULU."

This single has been out-of-print for a long time and is difficult to find. It was included on the "Songs From The Vaults" CD in the Rocky Horror Picture Show 15th Anniversary Box Set.

Music video

The music video is also the opening to the movie the song appeared in. It is simple Nell dancing around on the set of the movie. The music video is considered unofficial by some fans because it was pulled directly from the movie.
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