secret thesis is that the clothes / style has aged far worse than the sonics
bowie looks shit as often as looks exquisite
roxy look tatty
the covers are embarrassing
my agenda double - fold
to argue for what no one talks about when talking about glam, which is the music - to argue that there was a distinctive, if loose, sonic aesthetic - and set of sonic advances, or at least steps taken
but also to argue, in the context of all rock, image appearance gesture performance spectacle is
"everything is glam rock"
and even the performance of non-performance is a kind of performance
- naturalistic acting in cinema, method, kitsch sink etc - casting of non-professionals
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