Tag: divine
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RC 234: The Queer History of Pop Part 1 (1960s-1980s)
I’ve been listening to the Story of Pop which again has been repeated on 6Music, but this time also reading the excellent Simon Napier-Bell’s Black Vinyl White Powder and the contrast has been striking – not so much the drug usage which has been there in the BBC series, but the queer element has been…
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303 + Sylvester + Bear = Hard Ton
I’m all for glamorous bears shaking their thang (well maybe not Bearforce One) and Hard Ton is what you get if you mix a Beth Ditto oversized disco diva with Jamie Principle via the voice of Sylvester and the hot trash mess look of Leigh Bowery & Divine. Yep that good 😀 Saw the video…
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I HEART Divine David
Before YouTube we had TakeoverTV – yes like YouTube full of absolute shit, and strangely the same cat/violence/zombie/sex obsession of later web 2.0, but occasionally there was the odd gem. Divine David aka David Hoyle was one of those, popping up in I think his first TV appearance, as well as Adam & Joe and…