Mark Simpson on how Bowie, the 1970s progenitor metrosexuality, shape-shifted masculinity (Originally appeared in High50 magazine, March 2013) The video for David Bowie’s first single in a decade, the melancholic, low-key ‘Where Are We Now?’ – featuring the faces of Bowie and an unnamed woman superimposed on conjoined puppets – is striking for all… Read More »David Bowie’s Bisensuality
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I recently chanced upon this clip of Rod Stewart performing ‘The Killing of Georgie Parts I & II’ on a late-night BBC4 re-run of a Top of the Pops from 1976. I was completely transfixed. Not by nostalgia though, for a change. Bizarrely, scandalously I don’t recall seeing or even hearing this… Read More »The Breathtaking Beauty of Rod Stewart’s ‘The Killing of Georgie Parts I & II’
Mark Simpson rubs glam boy band Suede up the wrong way (Originally appeared in Attitude, 1994 ) I have something to confess. When I listened to Suede’s eponymous debut album last year I was disappointed. Disappointed that it turned out to be as good as the hype had trumpeted it… Read More »The Persueders
Mark Simpson on David Bowie’s ‘men’s lib’ legacy Lovely – in every sense – piece in the Guardian today by Gary Kemp, guitarist and songwriter and general brains behind 80s New Romantic norf London working class wide boys Spandau Ballet, about how he fell for David Bowie watching his epoch-making… Read More »The Starman Has Landed: Bowie and His Glam Lovechildren