
Shock and Awe
Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century
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Shock and Awe
Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century
About this book
As the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! In
Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds explores this most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. Bolan, Bowie, Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper, New York Dolls, Slade, Roxy Music, Iggy, Lou Reed, Be Bop Deluxe, David Essex -- all are represented here. Reynolds charts the retro future sounds, outrageous styles and gender-fluid sexual politics that came to define the first half of the seventies and brings it right up to date with a final chapter on glam in hip hop, Lady Gaga, and the aftershocks of David Bowie's death.
Shock and Awe is a defining work and another classic in the Faber Social rock n roll canon to stand alongside
Rip it Up,
Electric Eden and
Yeah Yeah Yeah.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1: Boogie Poet: Marc Bolan and T. Rex
- 2: The London Boy: Bowie’s Early Years
- 3: Elected: Alice Cooper and Shock Rock
- 4: Teenage Rampage: Glitter Stomp and Disco Rock
- 5: Hard to Be Real: David Bowie and Friends Conquer the World
- 6: What’s the Date Again? The Future-Retro Visions of Roxy Music
- 7: Trash City: New York Dolls and Wayne County
- 8: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again: Fifties Flashbacks and Rock’n’Roll Replays
- 9: Baroque ’n’ Roll: Late Glam
- 10: Run to the Shadows: Bowie versus Los Angeles
- 11: Ultraviolence: Punk Before Punk
- 12: Just Another Hero: Bowie’s Berlin
- Aftershocks: A Partial Inventory of Glam Echoes and Reflections starring
- Photographs
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Also by the Author
- Copyright