Glam Rock is Dead
February 2nd 2007 23:56
I'm trying to make a habit of confusing everyone with my post titles.
Yes, lying in a grave next to both Rock and Punk is Glam Rock, taken from us at such an early age.
Anyway, I recently saw the movie Velvet Goldmine, and, I really hate to advertise it, because the story revolves around two people who are modeled after David Bowie and Iggy Pop, and Bowie was very unhappy at the creators for how he was presented in their tribute.
Regardless of that, it is a really good movie, before I saw it I never really took Glam Rock seriously - simply laughing at the costumes and ignoring the music. Anyone who does this really is missing out
Anyway the movie starts with the revalation that Oscar Wilde is an alien, and possesses a crazy Green gem that makes him so crazy and awesome. "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." is a quote from Wilde, and that really does sound like something a glam rocker would say.
It is this gem that gives the Glam Rock spirit to everyone who holds it, and this gem gets around.
wikipedia says this about the movie
About the film
The story follows a British journalist (Christian Bale) who has to search his own past when writing an article about early 1970s rock stars for an American periodical. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers had his feature debut playing the role of Brian Slade, a pansexual folk minstrel-cum-glitter icon patterned after David Bowie and to a lesser extent, Marc Bolan. Ewan McGregor co-stars in the role of Curt Wild, a glam-rock performer who doesn't back down from sex, nudity or drugs on or off stage, and whom many consider to be loosely based on Iggy Pop, with a dash of Lou Reed and Mick Jagger. Also featured are Toni Collette as Slade's wife, and Eddie Izzard as his manager.
[edit] Synopsis
The tale strongly parallels Bowie and Pop's relationship in the 1970s and 1980s, with parallel stages in both stories including "folk singer takes illegal substances" and "open-minded glam rocker becomes bland straight guy." Brian Slade's gradually overwhelming on-stage persona of "Maxwell Demon" and his backing band, "Venus in Furs", likewise bear a resemblance to Bowie's similar persona and backing band, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The film's plot turns Bowie's paranoia of being murdered during a concert (a paranoia that Bowie visited upon the Ziggy Stardust character in the climax of the Ziggy Stardust album) into a career-ending publicity stunt by Slade. The film is also strongly influenced by the ideas and life of Oscar Wilde (seen here as a progenitor of glam rock), with a dash of Jean Genet influence. The narrative structure of the film is modeled on that of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane[1].
Peace
Yes, lying in a grave next to both Rock and Punk is Glam Rock, taken from us at such an early age.
Anyway, I recently saw the movie Velvet Goldmine, and, I really hate to advertise it, because the story revolves around two people who are modeled after David Bowie and Iggy Pop, and Bowie was very unhappy at the creators for how he was presented in their tribute.
Regardless of that, it is a really good movie, before I saw it I never really took Glam Rock seriously - simply laughing at the costumes and ignoring the music. Anyone who does this really is missing out
Anyway the movie starts with the revalation that Oscar Wilde is an alien, and possesses a crazy Green gem that makes him so crazy and awesome. "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." is a quote from Wilde, and that really does sound like something a glam rocker would say.
It is this gem that gives the Glam Rock spirit to everyone who holds it, and this gem gets around.
wikipedia says this about the movie
About the film
The story follows a British journalist (Christian Bale) who has to search his own past when writing an article about early 1970s rock stars for an American periodical. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers had his feature debut playing the role of Brian Slade, a pansexual folk minstrel-cum-glitter icon patterned after David Bowie and to a lesser extent, Marc Bolan. Ewan McGregor co-stars in the role of Curt Wild, a glam-rock performer who doesn't back down from sex, nudity or drugs on or off stage, and whom many consider to be loosely based on Iggy Pop, with a dash of Lou Reed and Mick Jagger. Also featured are Toni Collette as Slade's wife, and Eddie Izzard as his manager.
[edit] Synopsis
The tale strongly parallels Bowie and Pop's relationship in the 1970s and 1980s, with parallel stages in both stories including "folk singer takes illegal substances" and "open-minded glam rocker becomes bland straight guy." Brian Slade's gradually overwhelming on-stage persona of "Maxwell Demon" and his backing band, "Venus in Furs", likewise bear a resemblance to Bowie's similar persona and backing band, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The film's plot turns Bowie's paranoia of being murdered during a concert (a paranoia that Bowie visited upon the Ziggy Stardust character in the climax of the Ziggy Stardust album) into a career-ending publicity stunt by Slade. The film is also strongly influenced by the ideas and life of Oscar Wilde (seen here as a progenitor of glam rock), with a dash of Jean Genet influence. The narrative structure of the film is modeled on that of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane[1].
Peace
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