Tag: marc almond
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Pet Shop Boys vs Soft Cell – Purple Zone
No not a mashup – it’s only taken 4 decades but Soft Cell and Pet Shop Boys collaborate with a track called Purple Zone. I’m guessing from the lyrics Marc Almond took more of a lead, but then again the backing sounds like classic Pet Shop Boys/Chris Lowe (keeping a ‘Lowe’ profile in this video,…
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RC 341: How To Survive A Plague Part 1: It Couldn’t Happen Here
February is LGBTQ* History month in the UK, and with the recent TV series ‘It’s A Sin’ it seemed time to post this musical podcast series about the last pandemic, the HIV/AIDS ‘plague’. I started this last April during the first lockdown as I could see parallels between what I lived through in the ’80s…
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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…