a book about glam rock and art pop - 1970s mostly - but also tracking its echoes and reflections through the 80s, 90s and into the 21st Century - footnotes to follow here soon
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Girlschool's out forever
Well I knew glamlove was a stripe painted right down Def Leppard's collective back, but I didn't know Girlschool were repeat defenders - here covering bubblestomp and glitterbeat
I guess it's just part of the DNA of anyone who was a pop kid in the UK 70s
They really should have done a cover of "School's Out" though
And did they ever go on Rockschool and if not why not?
"Bowie damage" and the art-glam / new wave + postpunk nexus
I didn't know the music journalist and author Mark Spitz - who has died tragically young - very well, but I always enjoyed chatting...