Glam!, Barney Hoskyns
Glam!, Barney Hoskyns
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Glam!
Bowie, Bolan and the Glitter Revolution

Author: Barney Hoskyns

Narrator: Joanna Hall

Unabridged: 4 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Talking Music

Published: 04/28/2014

Categories: Nonfiction, Music, Rock

Synopsis

From Oscar Wilde to Ziggy Stardust, from Liberace to Lou Reed and T Rex to Roxy Music, here is the flamboyant decadence, the androgyny, and the sheer unadulterated fun of the early Seventies -- in an incredible rock history that tells it like it was.

About Barney Hoskyns

Barney Hoskyns is a music historian, editorial director of the online music-journalism library Rock's Backpages, and author of Hotel California, Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits, and an oral history of Led Zeppelin. He lives in London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nigeyb

A slim and concise (115 pages) volume that focusses on Glam's key players (Bowie, Bolan, Roxy Music, New York Dolls, Lou Reed) and a more passing reference to some of the lesser lights (Sweet, Slade, Suzi, Sparks, Mud, Rubettes etc.). I am fairly knowledgeable about Glam Rock and learnt nothing new,......more

Goodreads review by Byron 'Giggsy'

As Todd Haynes (director of Velvet Goldmine) states in the forward (1998), he could find no book, in or out of print, on the glitter era, only individual artist examinations. That alone makes this book a worthy read. Focuses on the Bowie/Bolan/Mott/Sweet/RoxyMusic/GaryGlitter/Slade British side and......more

Goodreads review by Liz

p cool that so many things in Velvet Goldmine were taken from the real life glam scene and that things like the death of glitter concert really happened......more

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