‘I’ve come to the point in life when I’m willing to take the risks I’ve always wanted to.’ Promoting her album with the Pet Shop Boys, Liza Minnelli was in a liberated mood when she granted the Observer an audience in Athens in 1989, but not a punctual one. She was detained – washing her hair, then losing her room key but, on arrival the delayed diva looked ‘fresh and younger than her 43 years’.
