I was recently listening to T. Rex’s Electric Warrior from ’71. Everybody knows the overplayed “Get It On”, but get past that song and there’s a lot more fun to be had with this album.
No doubt Bowie took inspiration from Marc Bolan’s stage persona when he was cooking up Ziggy. But what I find interesting about glam is that while everyone was focused on the makeup and the occasional cross dressing frontman, the music went back to the basics. “Jeepster” and “The Motivator” are good old rock and roll. The lyrics may not be in the Chuck Berry storytelling mode, but the rollicking guitar and lack of psychedelic pretense or special effects places the band firmly in the “let’s have fun, don’t worry about tomorrow” camp.
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