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...Stylistically the album covers a broad spectrum, from folk-rock to jazz to glam, but its sonic palette — acoustic guitar, keyboards, saxophone and clarinet, bursts of electric guitar, stabs of Hammond organ...
...She also had that old school glam vibe to her so the majority of the clothes we used were actually her own.”...
...His designs combine a healthy dose of glam-rock attitude with an experimental approach to the suit’s traditional form and proportions....
...“That moment in 1972, when David Bowie played ‘Starman’ on Top of the Pops – it affected an entire generation of kids.”...
...Jonathan Rhys Meyers in 1998’s Velvet Goldmine, a musical-mystery partly inspired by David Bowie....
...Over the next 11 years they spliced electropop, glam rock and performance art into a multi-platinum career with hit singles including “Take Your Mama” and “Filthy/Gorgeous”....
...Precious few picnic opportunities at its West End home base, the Coliseum on St Martin’s Lane, and the lo-glam dress code barely involves an uncrumpled T-shirt....
...Next came Jazzin’ For Blue Jean, Julien Temple’s 1984 short promotional film for David Bowie, then Temple’s 1986 feature film Absolute Beginners. Burton’s venture has grown ever since....
...“We wanted to introduce Sunspel to a new audience, but also see where Edie would take it within our ethos,” says Sunspel creative director David Telfer....
...You didn’t need to be a hardcore devotee to be wowed by Elton’s musical dexterity, or the range of his hit repertoire with songwriting partner Bernie Taupin, spanning glam and soft rock to Philly soul-inspired...
...Styles draws on numerous androgynous pop culture pioneers for his image — David Bowie and Freddie Mercury obviously, but also contemporary talents such as Olly Alexander....
...In a city reinventing its restaurant scene, Silencio is positioned sometime in the late 1970s, part Art Nouveau revival, part vinyl-boothed café-tabac and part disco-ball glam....
...The most defiantly urban moment is the last track, “Hattaya”, whose lurching syncopated thump, like a Maghreb version of Glam or Burundi Beat, is an updating of traditional Mezoued music....
...June brings a glam-rock double-header with the 50th anniversaries of Roxy Music’s self-titled debut and David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars....
...“It’s just the Messiah story done with the best glam rock you ever heard . . . To me, Tommy was the mix of the performance and the visuals and the glamour of it. It is such a glam movie....
...murk of effects, insistent drums, growls, shouts and jittery-skittery guitars: there’s the echo of dub reggae; there’s The Beatles’ experimental “Tomorrow Never Knows”; there’s the insistent thump of a glam-rock...
...The closer, “Sirin”, is a glam stomp about a magic bird. ★★★★☆ ‘We Are’ is released by Glitterbeat...
...On “Boy Dontcha Know”, Osborne takes up the story of a girl who would rather be a boy, channelling the thump-and-whine of David Bowie’s “Boys Keep Swinging”....
...By then I was going into my Glam Rock period, all platform shoes and satin blouson jackets....
...“Turf Accountant Daddy” brings to mind 1970s glam rock with its stomping beat, grinding riff and fluttering bass. Lyrically, it’s all acutely observed and clever....
...The last time this happened, they abandoned the dance-floor rhythms that had brought them hits such as “The Number One Song in Heaven” (itself a pivot away from the rock- and glam-based music that gave them...
...David Steel, the former Liberal leader, was literally in the pocket of his supposed ally SDP leader, David Owen — and arguably his public image never recovered....
...Beyoncé, for example, spotted Messika jewellery in a Paris hotel vitrine, walked into the boutique and bought the Glam’Azone ring, then photographed it on her hand standing in front of the Mona Lisa....
...Standing between these two and victory — the David to their Goliaths — was “I Love Sausage Rolls”: a novelty song about pork-based pastry snacks by a YouTuber called LadBaby....
...Much of the credit for that lies with Jay Scheib’s winningly loopy staging, which conjures the enigmatic aura of a David Lynch film by way of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (which featured Meat Loaf himself...
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