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We are already at a point where an appeal to rock 'n' roll will tell us almost nothing worth knowing, though this is, finally, a rock 'n' roll story. Real mysteries cannot be solved, but they can be turned into better mysteries.
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
by Greil Marcus
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
by Greil Marcus
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Shut. Up. David. Jones.
Date: 2005-05-15 09:11 pm (UTC)Oh please! KISS (http://www.icebergradio.com/artist/3210/kiss.html)? Native New Yorkers. (Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley are filthy rich – on a larger scale than Bowie – because of all the "bricklayers and blokes" that have bought their records and seen their shows over the decades.) And how about Alice Fucking Cooper? (http://www.randysrodeo.com/rock/cooper.php) Let us not forget Suzi Quatro (http://www.nyrock.com/interviews/suziq_int.htm)!
Glam happened here. It co-existed with the UK scene, and the Brits riffed off us as we riffed off them back in the day. It wasn't exactly like what was going on in England – one cannot compare a small island to a huge continental land mass – but it definitely existed.
I could be really evil and bring up Parliament-Funkadelic (http://www.fastnbulbous.com/funkadel.htm) and LaBelle (http://www.allthingsdeep.com/dge/labelle.htm)...without whom Young Americans might never have happened, eh David?