Friday, August 6, 2021

Peel's sharp ears

Peel anticipates junkshop glam - at the time - in this survey of 1974 written for Sounds.  

..."top teen bands such as Slade and Sweet and Mud have made records which collectors will be collecting avidly, as collectors always do, in a few years time


As for the schoolgirl uniform -  tempting as it is to see it as a glam cross-dressing move, the fear is that it points to more dubious tastes  - the parallel would be less with simpering Steve Priest of The Sweet, (who said of his glam-era image "I looked like a 9 year old girl") than with sweaty-palmed Gazzer  Glitter....






I would rather have been raining kisses on her eager, upturned face” – not even hiding in plain sight is  it?



 





















































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