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Oh! You Pretty Things: Glam Queens & Street Urchins 197076 (Clamshell Box)
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Oh! You Pretty Things: Glam Queens & Street Urchins 197076 (Clamshell Box)
In the teenage wastelands of grey early Seventies Britain, where the musical landscape was dominated by introspective singer-songwriters and dour rock bands, the emergence of the outrageous, androgynous, peacock-plumaged Glam Rock scene provided a vital spark in the dark. Sadly the genre was quickly hijacked by the backroom hustlers of the British music industry and their mutton-dressed-as-glam pop idol marionettes. However, Oh! You Pretty Things ignores such lightweight fripperies to concentrate on the real deal. We focus on the twin central strands of Glam Rock: the cerebral and the visceral, with the artier, experimental element of the scene joined by the Ladbroke Grove street rockers and the Steve Marriott-channelling chirpy Cockney geezer street urchins, many of whom had been to drama school and knew how to strike a pose. We examine the trash-aesthetic fault line that joined the seedy, no-longer-swinging London of the early Seventies with New York's sleazy demi-monde and the incorrigible hucksters of Hollywood. The latter were led by Kim Fowley, ably assisted by LA scenester Rodney Bingenheimer, who opened Rodney's English Disco (allegedly at Bowie's suggestion), where the underage groupies, teenage runaways and glitter queens of Sunset Strip hung out with visiting British rock royalty and the likes of Alice Cooper and a wasted Iggy Pop. Incorporating huge British bands (Roxy Music, Slade, Sweet etc) and the leading US acts on the scene (New York Dolls, Jobriath, Lou Reed, Iggy & The Stooges), our four-hour anthology of prettiest stars, prima ballerinas and real cool traders covers all bases. Some acts were defined purely by glam, others (ELO, Strawbs, Thin Lizzy) merely paid the neighbourhood a fleeting visit, while the likes of Despair and England's Glory would only find their niche after the more streetwise element of glam mutated into punk. Big hits, inexplicable misses, seminal glam texts, cult classics, key album tracks, alternative versions and even a clutch of previously unreleased but essential recordings: Oh! You Pretty Things - housed in a clamshell box that contains a 40-page booklet of amazing photos and incredible stories - assembles all these and more to act as the definitive primer of a relatively short-lived but glorious musical and pop-cultural phenomenon.
.. PRETTY THINGS
Medie | Musik CD (Compact Disc) |
Antal discs | 3 |
Udgivet | 26. februar 2021 |
EAN/UPC | 5013929188709 |
Udgiver | GRAPEFRUIT CRSEGBOX087 |
Genre | Rock |
Mål | 132 × 134 × 17 mm · 148 g |
Trackliste
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1. CD
- Pyjamarama - Roxy Music
- Ma-ma-ma Belle - Electric Light Orchestra
- Barbecutie - Sparks
- Joey (Single Version) - Pretty Things
- Tumble with Me - the Hollywood Brats
- Rolling with My Baby (Single Version) - Silverhead
- Teenage Archangel - Be-bop Deluxe
- On the Ball - Streak
- Once Bitten Twice Shy (Album Version) - Ian Hunter
- Kerb Crawler (Single Version) - Hawkwind
- Payroll - Brutus
- Bright Lights - England's Glory
- Andy Warhol - Dana Gillespie
- Blue Movie Star - Rococo
- White Light White Heat - Mick Ronson
- Send Me the Bill for Your Friendship - Duncan Browne
- Powerman - the Kinks
- Up in the Air - Bearded Lady
- The Prettiest Star - Simon Turner
- The Cops Are Coming - Heavy Metal Kids
- Glittery Obituary - Blackfoot Sue
- Street Urchin - Pink Fairies
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2. CD
- Take Me Bak 'ome - Slade
- Little Darling - Thin Lizzy
- Cat's Eyes - Zior
- Satellite of Love - Lou Reed
- Gun - John Cale
- Lady Easy Action - Despair
- Shame Shame Shame - the Hammersmith Gorillas
- B-movie Bedtime (Demo Version) - Doctors of Madness
- Gimme Some Skin - Iggy & the Stooges
- Rat Crawl - Third World War
- Give Yourself a Chance - Agnes Strange
- Chance Meeting - Bryan Ferry
- The Purple Speed Queen - Curved Air
- Earthling - Jobriath
- Big Day - Phil Manzanera Featuring Eno
- Around and Around - Slowload
- Strange Movies - the Troggs
- Rosie's Coming to Town - Rosie
- Queenage Baby - Wayne County
- Sweet Transvestite - Tim Curry
- The Six Teens - Sweet
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3. CD
- Personality Crisis - New York Dolls
- I'm Waiting for the Man - Tina Harvey
- Small Town, Big Adventures - John Howard
- Space Ace - Brett Smiley
- The Dancer - Leo Sayer
- Peaches (What's It All About?) - Richmond
- Going Home - Strawbs
- I Love You for Your Mind (Not Your Body) - a Raincoat
- The Monk - Rupert Hine
- All I Wanna Be - Rusty
- The Browns - Duffy
- Last Chance - the Winkies
- Ragman - Hard Stuff
- Dog Meat - Flamin' Groovies
- Dozy Dora - Bullfrog
- Little Girl - Spiv
- Not Fade Away (Single Version) - Fumble
- High School Dropout - Crushed Butler
- Dodgem Dude (Demo Version) - Michael Moorcock & the Deep Fix
- Hollywood Nites - Kim Fowley
- King of the Night Time World - Hollywood Stars
- The Last of the Teenage Idols - the Sensational Alex Harvey
- Saturday Gigs - Mott the Hoople