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Pin-Ups 1972: Third Generation Rock 'n' Roll
Pin-Ups 1972: Third Generation Rock 'n' Roll | Peter Stanfield
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A sleazy, neon- and grease-stuffed chronicle of London's rock scene during the pivotal year of 1972--from Marc Bolan to the New York Dolls. Elvis, Eddie, Chuck, Gene, Buddy, and Little Richard were the original rockers. Dylan, the Beatles, the Stones, and the Who formed rock's second coming. As the 1960s turned into the 1970s, the crucial question was who would lead rock 'n' roll's third generation? Pin-Ups 1972 tracks the London music scene during this pivotal year, all Soho sleaze, neon, grease, and leather. It begins with the dissolution of the underground and the chart success of Marc Bolan. T. Rextasy formed the backdrop to Lou Reed and Iggy Pop's British exile and their collaborations with David Bowie. This was the year Bowie became a star and redefined the teenage wasteland. In his wake followed Roxy Music and the New York Dolls, future-tense rock 'n' roll revivalists. Bowie, Bolan, Iggy, Lou, Roxy, and the Dolls--pin-ups for a new generation.
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"I want a no-bullshit, working class band—I've had enough of all this pseudo peace crap." - band manager, John Fenton
One of the artists Stanfield has introduced me to is Third World War, a band which in 1970 rejected rock's excesses and pop's saccharin sweetness, with songs embracing the hard realities of working class life from a revolutionary perspective. This is punk seven years before punk! ?✊
https://youtu.be/ffwGc5sjoVI?si=fGifz9-Ki3LvS7di

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Dilara Thank you for the rec: I don't think I'd ever heard of them 😁 18h
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"While images, music and words can be legislated against, controlled by censors and the police, what cannot be suppressed is the way you walk, hold yourself and speak. Style and attitude matter and have force for someone like Farren."

I hadn't heard of Mick Farren (r. holding bullwhip) before, nor his band, The Deviants. Stanfield touts him as a key British underground figure, whose counter-cultural attitude prepared the ground for the ⬇️

Bookwomble "... transgressive acts that followed.
His back catalogue isn't too extensive, so I'll try to work through it. The Deviants' first album, Ptooff!, is solid 1968 proto-punk psychedelia: MC5 and The Stooges, via Syd Barrett. I like it!
https://youtu.be/3AkehG9Zh4c?si=GQhqqqlrXPTH6zNy
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Pin-Ups 1972: Third Generation Rock 'n' Roll | Peter Stanfield
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Continuing my effort to read all my 2024 Christmas books before Christmas 2025, the penultimate one is a social history of London's post-Beatles emerging alternative rock scene, dubbed by Alice Cooper Third Generation Rock, being the arty end of Glam Rock 🎸🪩💄💋🧑🏼‍🎤

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