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Glam
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You should never have opened that door
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Ah Glam...the forerunner to
punk...the New York Dolls...punk before the
time...seminal...without them the Pistols would never have happened. Blah Blah
Blah...makeup...controversial...
Before you get all smug just remember this...thanks to glam
and the Dolls this went and
bloody happened...
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love you love .............Gary Glitter. Jesus
Christ an overweight porker with a chest rug dressed in cling foil, the bouffant hairstyle ...the
cruelest parody of the dolls on hamburgers ....and we fell for it. He was about 40 at the time setting the
world alight with sub tribal drumming boot boy vocal choirs and the simplest
of riffs that demanded he strut. No sexual ambiguity here Gary was all man and
just fucking hideous at that. Little kids however proved to be his downfall
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Glam USA style...In the seventies glam completely bypassed the
US of A where
they contented themselves with endless guitar solos and buying Fleetwood Mac
and Peter Frampton albums by the million. Around the early Eighties
though they suddenly
remembered it and all of a sudden boys who do girls like their boys appeared in
their droves complete with cowboy boots and tight spandex pants and boy did we suffer.
Poison, Motley Crue, early Bon Jovi, Faster Pussycat, LA Guns and Guns & Roses
were just a few while over here we had those lovable clowns in makeup Wrathchild
and Tigertailz ...you had to be careful at gigs and check for stubble !!!
Who do I blame ...the New York Dolls...... They don't mention this in punk books but I do
coz its
hilarious. |
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Just looking for a kiss... and some cheap makeup
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Motley
Crue..just popping out to the shop for a loaf of bread
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And how about this for a killer . These
bands became larger and larger turning into bloated decadent stadium monsters divorced from the real world
.....sound familiar ?....remember the seventies ? And lo
what killed these bands deader than a dodo virtually overnight....the mighty
Nirvana....what goes around comes around boys.
Suck on it ......!
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