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Garland's gal After years in the shadow of her mother Judy Garland, and her own personal battle with drink and drug addiction, Lorna Luft is finally facing up to her legacy with a tribute show. John Lyttle met her
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All through her teens and twenties, Lorna Luft ran from her legacy
as Judy Garland's daughter and Liza Minnelli's half-sister.
She hated the questions, the comparisons and the intrusive, often
synthetic public sympathy which came with her mother's accidental
death by barbiturate overdose here in London in 1969 Dorothy OD-ed
and over the rainbow at last. Luft dyed her hair mauve, belted out
backup on Blondie records, and married and divorced a hard-living
rock'n'roller her late parent would definitely have disapproved of,
before swiftly spiralling into her own drink and drugs hell.
She ...
