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Cargando... Glam!: (David) Bowie, (Marc) Bolan and the Glitter Rock Revolution (1998)por Barney Hoskyns
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. At about 100 pages plus forewords and indexes, Hoskyns tribute to Glam is concise, but covers all the key movers in this short-lived musical genre. Bolan and Bowie predominate quite rightly as the two who really started it all - everyone else just jumped on the bandwagon. Yet who can forget that absolute classic Christmas Top of the Pops in 1973 which featured Slade, Mud, Sweet, Wizzard - all the inheritors of Boland and Bowie's artistry. A discussion of Bowie's influence on Lou Reed and the New York Dolls is inevitable but (I think) the US bands are less interesting than the total Englishness of the main glam movement. Hoskyns postulates that glam opened the doors for punk and disco to burst onto the scene, and is still part of the make-up of many of today's artists such as Prince and Suede. A great read in one sitting, which brought back such nostalgia - I'm just off to listen to Ziggy once more. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
An account of pop music's glam rock era in the early-1970s, characterized by visual excess and bisexuality. The book is based on interviews with exponents such as David Bowie, Brian Eno, Bryan Ferry, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Barney Hoskyns places the era in context, charts the all too brief rise and fall of Glam including quotes from well informed commentators and key participants, before briefly exploring Glam's legacy.
The book was published in 1998 and so only hints at Gary Glitter's fall from grace. The book also precedes the interest in the the so-called Junk Shop Glam scene that developed in the early 2000s. As in all musical genres, some of the best Glam tracks were recorded by those who were has-beens or were-never-gonna-bes. Some of this now highly collectible Junk Shop Glam has been issued on compilation CDs, most notably the three RPM Junk Shop Glam compilations (Boobs: The Junkshop Glam Discotheque, Velvet Tinmine: 20 Junkshop Glam Ravers, and Glitterbest: 20 Pre Punk & Glam Terrace Stompers). A more comprehensive book, or one written more recently, might choose to explore the one-offs who tried to cash in on the craze, leaving behind a lone stellar 45 before shuffling off back into complete and total obscurity.
This book is a great introduction to the Glam Rock genre, and also makes a satisfying read for the more informed reader who simply wants to enjoy a short, well written account of Glam's glory years. ( )