Rock N Roll has always been an outsider’s game. The little corner of the music world where the rebel is the hero and the unconventional is celebrated rather than suppressed. The gender-bending song then, is perhaps the ultimate expression of this artistic rite and freedom. Men singing songs as women, dudes who look like ladies, transgender artists baring their souls and the whole entire celebration of the sexually vague. Let loose your gender restrictions, take a dose of androgynous and – in the immortal words of that immortal chorus – take a walk on the wild side, as we look through music’s greatest gender-bending songs.

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