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1983: The High Summer of (Synth-)Pop

by Mark Simpson
February 20, 2014August 5, 2022

From the gender-bending antics of Eurythmics and Culture Club, to the propulsive synthpop of Depeche Mode, New Order, and the Human League, was there ever, asks Mark Simpson, a more spectacular time for pop? In 1983, the year that McDonald’s introduced Chicken McNuggets and the second Cold War was at… Read More »1983: The High Summer of (Synth-)Pop

Mr ‘Thing’: Pejic and his Prophet

by Mark Simpson
September 3, 2011December 23, 2020

‘All truly beautiful things are a mixture of masculine and feminine.’ So said the late Susan Sontag. And she would know. I’ve only just read a recent profile of the transexy Serbian model Andrej Pejic in The New Yorker called, with only a soupçon of hyperbole, ‘The Prettiest Boy in the World’. Pejic, who… Read More »Mr ‘Thing’: Pejic and his Prophet

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