The lady is a singer called Melanie - she used to sing with the Country & Western gynaecologist, Hank Wangford (who no-one will have heard of unless they were around London in the 80's) and had a solo career too.
I turned up the morning after her birthday - hence the flowers and baloons. She wanted the photo to make a statement about her so I ended up constructing it like a still life. Never ever let the subject art direct...
She got me to do 20 odd prints for her - and never paid me for them. But she was so nice I didn't mind. And the clients paid in the end.