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successor to Shock and Awe whose feed no longer seems to be working properly - original blog + archive remains here: http://shockandawesimonreynolds.blogspot.com/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the blog of the Simon Reynolds book about glam and artpop of the 1970s and its aftershocks and reflections to this day
Came across this snippet from Kevin Rowland 's The Q & A in The Guradian a few weeks back (Kev promoting his memoir Bless Me Fathe...
That is a great observation. But for many people, wasn’t looking “bad” - challenging, confrontational, provocative - part of the point? It’s where Glam aligns most closely with Punk.
ReplyDeleteI rather think he was trying to look exquisite here!
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