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RIP Tim Curry
A glam icon obviously for his Frank N Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show , a movie much darker and more interesting than I had first i...
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NME cartoon circa 1981 nicely skewers the self-declared aristocracies of club culture Apropos Oh the myopic narcissism of the young! Or ... -
David Thomson has a new book out, A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies, in which he convinces himself that the artf... -
There's an exhibition at the Design Museum in High Street Kensington dedicated to the New Romantics and the club scene of Blitz and ...
Quite a muscular-looking wrist/hand there.
ReplyDeleteThe top one definitely looks unfeminine.
DeleteI am tantalized by something Simon Napier Bell said when I interviewed him for S+A - at least I think it was him who told me this - something about an image of David Sylvian with shirt open to reveal female breasts. I don't think this androgynous image was used in an advertisement, it was projected behind them onstage.... maybe in Japan itself, when they toured there? I've not been able to find a trace of the image, or a mention of it.
Actually, there's a reference to it in a Sylvie Simmons looking-back piece:
Delete"Napier-Bell, meanwhile, was pulling out the stops to get the band press. He tried the lot: Oriental name angle (sumo wrestler cabs around to the rock mags delivering sake); androgynous image angle (the ad where David pulled open his jacket to reveal fake breasts); the gorgeous bloke angle. After a three-month campaign, the Japanese bit, the group were stars in their namesake country, with 30,000 girls in their fan club before the first album was even released."
I could be wrong, but I don't remember DS being a massive girlie heart throb in the UK; as mentioned in a previous post, he did inspire a male tribe of - largely straight I would say - wannabes (there were two in my sixth form college c. 1983). I guess he joins the company of Brigitte Bardot, Julie Driscoll and Julie Christie: fed up with being gorgeous & so they go on to do something a little unexpected.
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