Simon Napier-Bell
Auteur van Black Vinyl, White Powder
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I'm Coming to Take You to Lunch: A Fantastic Tale of Boys, Booze and How Wham! Were Sold to China (2005) 28 exemplaren
50 Years Legal [DVD] 1 exemplaar
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- 1939-04-22
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- England
UK
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If this book has anything as highfalutin as a thesis it’s that the music business was founded on three key principles: money, sex and drugs. He’s very good on how changes in drug fashions over the years shaped the changing sound of the music (psychedelia/acid, punk/speed, house/ecstasy) and on the central influence of gay men and gay culture on British pop music. Camp and androgyny were perhaps Britain’s unique contributions to pop (though Little Richard might have something to say about that).
There are tales of chart rigging and dodgy deals and, above all, of young men behaving badly. In the sixties and seventies before pop grew up, or more accurately became so over-managed that there was nothing left to listen to except the white noise of market research, bad behaviour was not so much tolerated in the record industry as obligatory. The more anarchic, anti-establishment, or just plain obnoxious you were, the more successful, respected, famous and, most importantly, rich you became. The music business plundered our secret desires and sold them back to us artfully packaged. As Napier-Bell observes: ‘at the heart of the pop dream is the sound of a cash register’.… (meer)