[peel] Re: Reconstructionism

[markbursa@...]

>>There was loads of gayness on early 70s TOTPs.  Bolan/Bowie/There was loa
and others - the difference was most of the  audience wasn't sophisticated
enough to recognise it as  gayness<<


This is true - though it's generally implied, and obvious through  the 
hindsight goggles. Bowie is of course the biggest dabbler in androgyny. T  Rex songs 
are rarely ambiguous in content, and the  Glitter/Slade/Mud/Wizzard/Sweet et 
al glam factions aren't even  trying.  


>>Glam was about teenage girls The boys were following prog  rock<<
 
 
Not at all. The playground chat at my school (I was 11  in 1972) was very 
much centred around the bands on TOTP. The  Bowie/Roxy/Sparks/Mott/Cockney Rebel 
art school glam pop stuff was a genuine  alternative to prog longhairs and 
their drum solos, as well as being a way  ahead when glam veered into self-parody 
(Rubettes, Mud etc). And a bigger  influence on 1st gen punks too - the 
Bromley lot, for example, or proto-goths  like Pete Murphy.
 
Girls liked Donny Osmond and David Cassidy; later the  Bay City Rollers. 
Older girls preferred stuff you could dance to, as ever.  




Suspect there weren't too many girls at your Croydon triple-header, Martin  
;-)
 
Mark