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
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Thursday, October 23, 2025
Secreted thesis (slight return)
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
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