Contents:
- DEF LEPPARD'S JOE ELLTT REMEMBERS TRAGIC GAY GLAM-ROCKER JOBRIATH: LIKE 'ZIGGY STARDT SUNG BY MICK JAGGER'
- WE NEED A MOVIE ABOUT JOBRIATH, THE OPENLY GAY ’70S ROCKER WHO INSPIRED MORRISSEY AND DEF LEPPARD (PODST)
DEF LEPPARD'S JOE ELLTT REMEMBERS TRAGIC GAY GLAM-ROCKER JOBRIATH: LIKE 'ZIGGY STARDT SUNG BY MICK JAGGER'
Jobriath, aka Bce Wayne Campbell, was the first openly gay rock star and the self-clared “te fairy of rock ‘n’ roll. The public reactn was no doubt at least partly bee Jobriath was openly gay. (He ma bold statements like “Askg me if I’m homosexual is like askg Jam Brown if he’s Black” his sensatnalistic terviews, and blasted other effemate rockers as “pretenrs.
He was 36 years s, Jobriath was mostly known for beg one of the biggt mercial failur and utnary tal mic bs history, but over the years he has bee a cult hero and e célèbre among other micians — gay and straight — who owe him a bt. ’”Elltt stole the album — Jobriath’s even ls succsful sophomore effort, Creatur of the Street — that day, only to disver when he got home that the sleeve was empty.
”In a separate terview wh Yahoo Entertament, Elltt says he didn’t fd out that Jobriath was gay until 15 years later, but shgs, “Who r?
WE NEED A MOVIE ABOUT JOBRIATH, THE OPENLY GAY ’70S ROCKER WHO INSPIRED MORRISSEY AND DEF LEPPARD (PODST)
The word ‘gay’ meant you were happy back then…, ” he says the Jobriath A. “So [the homophobia] was there.
But you’re not gay! If I had to throw every gay artist out of my llectn, I’d have no rerds left. Oh — and he was openly gay at a time when almost no one mic was.
What mak Jobriath so pellg is not only that he was an out-gay man receivg the full support and adoratn of his rporate owners — ’s how spectacularly his well-fund arrival to mic failed.