GGN POP CULTURE: Gee Michael's Mic Manager Simon Napier-Bell

Contents:

• SIMON NAPIER-BELL ON THE FUTURE OF THE RERD BIZ, GAY MARRIAGE AND SEAD O’CONNOR
• NAKED, I RAN AS MY GAY LOVER HELD A KNIFE
• THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S

SIMON NAPIER-BELL ON THE FUTURE OF THE RERD BIZ, GAY MARRIAGE AND SEAD O’CONNOR

You’re g to Atralia, where a hot topic is on a non-bdg postal vote on gay marriage. Isn’t gay marriage a strange thg? If two people love each other and you took some time to thk about , if you accept gay as legal, which is, then why shouldn’t they do all the thgs that straight people do?

I was never for gay marriage and I’m gay. I thought the whole pot about beg gay is you don’t have get married – wonrful. I thk a lot of gay people had to be nvced.

Glam rocker Marc Bolan lost his virgy at NINE and had a gay romp wh his manager, a TV tribute reveals. Arsenal badgeGlam rocker Marc Bolan lost his virgy at NINE and had a gay romp wh his manager, a TV tribute reveals. Simon Napier-BellBorn: 22-Apr-1939Birthplace: London, EnglandGenr: MaleRace or Ethnicy: WheSexual orientatn: Gay [1]Occupatn: Mic ProducerNatnaly: EnglandExecutive summary: Brish mic managerManager and sometime producer of a number of fluential bands, cludg Asia, Marc Bolan, T-Rex, Ultravox, Wham!, and The Yardbirds.

NAKED, I RAN AS MY GAY LOVER HELD A KNIFE

Oddly, Goldman famoly outed Brian Epste at the same time as gay. [1] Answerg a qutn on his webse, 26 June 2008, as to why he didn't want "anonymo sex a dark place", asked by Colonel Jim: "One of the great thgs about beg gay is the way easy sexual enunters turn up om nowhere. But the people who shaped and advised those artists – the on who managed the stars of the classic rock age – were, by an outsized marg, gay terwoven muny clud Brian Epste (who brought the world the Beatl), K Lambert (who -managed the Who), Simon Napier-Bell (the Yardbirds, and a young Marc Bolan), Robert Stigwood (Cream, the Bee Ge), Billy Gaff (Rod Stewart), Ken Pt (David Bowie), Barry Krost (Cat Stevens), as well as Tony Stratton-Smh (who formed the visnary label Charisma for bands like Genis).

In fact, was a gay man, Larry Parn, who svengali-d Bra’s very first rockers, om Tommy Steele to Billy Fury to Marty Wil. A new book tled The Velvet Mafia: the Gay Men who Ran the Swgg Sixti aims to tell the Brish si of this story by focg on several key players the scene, cludg a few of the aforementned nam along wh the novative producer Joe Meek and the head of the UK’s most powerful label at the time, Sir Joseph Lockwood. ”At the same time, the rich, powerful and fluential men faced the nsirable nsequenc of beg gay at a time when homosexual acts were still outlawed the UK.

THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S

”There were, fact, a few powerful gay women the Brish rock scene at the time as well, cludg Vicki Wickham, who booked the acts on the semal TV show Ready Steady Go and who later managed Dty Sprgfield and LaBelle.

”Bullock’s book don’t lve to the eper cultural and psychologil issu volved the relatnships between the gay and straight men. Still, ’s clear to any stunt of the era that the edgy liv of gay men at the time fascated the straight artists they worked wh. They weren’t jt gay but also Jewish.

”In some ways, managers like Epste and other others uld sulate themselv om the everyday life of gay men at the time – throwg their own exclive parti and circulatg elevated circl where they uld do as they pleased. Ironilly, after the law agast homosexual acts changed Bra 1967 – crimalizg them certa circumstanc and for those of a certa age – the harassment of LGBTQ people actually tensified. “But post-67, and wh the formatn of the Gay Liberatn Front 1970 Bra and wh gay people beg more outspoken, the raids and the psdo-polil attacks started to happen more.