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$33.00
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ARTIST
VA
TITLE
Oh! You Pretty Things: Glam Queens And Street Urchins 1970-76
FORMAT
3CD
LABEL
GRAPEFRUIT RECORDS
CATALOG #
CRSEGBOX 087CD
CRSEGBOX 087CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
4/16/2021
"We focus on the twin central strands of Glam Rock: the cerebral and the visceral, with the artier, experimental element of the scene joined by the Ladbroke Grove street rockers and the Steve Marriott-channelling chirpy Cockney geezer street urchins, many of whom had been to drama school and knew how to strike a pose. We examine the trash-aesthetic fault line that joined the seedy, no-longer-swinging London of the early Seventies with New York's sleazy demi-monde and the incorrigible hucksters of Hollywood. The latter were led by Kim Fowley, ably assisted by LA scenester Rodney Bingenheimer, who opened Rodney's English Disco (allegedly at Bowie's suggestion), where the underage groupies, teenage runaways and glitter queens of Sunset Strip hung out with visiting British rock royalty and the likes of Alice Cooper and a wasted Iggy Pop. Incorporating huge British bands (Roxy Music, Slade, Sweet etc) and the leading US acts on the scene (New York Dolls, Jobriath, Lou Reed, Iggy & The Stooges), our four-hour anthology of prettiest stars, prima ballerinas and real cool traders covers all bases. Some acts were defined purely by glam, others (ELO, Strawbs, Thin Lizzy) merely paid the neighborhood a fleeting visit, while the likes of Despair and England's Glory would only find their niche after the more streetwise element of glam mutated into punk. Big hits, inexplicable misses, seminal glam texts, cult classics, key album tracks, alternative versions and even a clutch of previously unreleased but essential recordings:
Oh! You Pretty Things
-- housed in a clamshell box that contains a 40-page booklet of amazing photos and incredible stories -- assembles all these and more to act as the definitive primer of a relatively short-lived but glorious musical and pop-cultural phenomenon."
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