From the NME 1974 Annual - which as is the wont of annuals, is really a survey of 1973.
Sorry, don't want to trample on any memories here, but this is just hideous
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
Some of this 1984-85 iD i magery is genuinely cool, really chic e.g. this one below Or just fun But some of it is a hot mess ' And ...
Oh, he did much, much worse than that:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziy-LglyaZQ
Yes that is ghastly
DeleteThe whole Ziggy / Aladdin phase is hideous except for when he has the bodysuit made by that Japanese designer