Obsessive Viewing Observations

script:
The sound of distant waves rise up.

Other sounds emerge in succession: gunfire, explosions, rinky-tink piano, children at play, bar-room singing, opera ... each enveloping the other like the sound of time itself passing.

What can be heard that is not in the script is

"The modern world of science and invention is of particular interest to women"

...shooting star passes...

"science has released them from much of the age old drudgery... "

Interesting but odd. Perhaps Todd wanted to add a little acknowledgment about the women's liberation movement's influence on the era, along with the gay one.

UPDATE:
Mike of The Whole Shebang Velvet Goldmine podcast identified this as as Amelia Earhart from a 1935 radio broadcast, "A Woman's Place in Science". Todd alludes to the idea of aliens picking up radio broadcasts from Earth, in turn sending ambassadors in spaceships for a visit...

Hence, the film begins and ends with radio!

That weren't no DJ that was hazy cosmic jive.

Quotes

script:
FEMALE NARRATOR
(British)
Histories, like ancient ruins, are the fictions of empires. While everything forgotten hangs in dark dreams of the past, ever threatening to return...


This one sounds like a 'real' quote but it seems to be written by Todd, who explains:
"The film is not about real history, but an imagined history. History is made by people in power, so there's all kinds of things that get left out ... that may be haunting us," he said. "Glam rock had no real documentation after it happened, and I was surprised by the incredible absence of any acknowledgment of how gay it is, how queer it is, how completely camp it is, how grotty it is--all that stuff just sort of disappeared. It's funny how you end up with a band like Queen that became like a stadium rock band -- [because Queen] is screaming 'fag'! It's shocking that's not what you think of immediately when you think of Queen, but we don't. It's funny how certain things lose their obviousness, and we're left with other readings of what they really are.

"I was shaking up real history with Goldmine and people resented that. They want their historical dramas to be authentic and that was the least of my intentions because it was the least of the intentions of glam rock itself. I took [the glam] tenets -- dressing up and being fantastical and non-authentic -- and tried to apply them to a film. But I think people -- at least people in the rock world -- missed that. Unfortunately."