Who created that geo 20th-century creature, the rock star? Consir the gay image makers of the day, like Brian Epste and Jann Wenner.
Contents:
- THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S
- 'OUR MARRIAGE WAS NO SHAM - EVEN IF WASN'T ALWAYS THE BT POSSIBLE STATE', SAYS GAY DJ KENNY EVERETT'S EX-WIFE
- THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK
- ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL
- ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL
THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S
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).
'OUR MARRIAGE WAS NO SHAM - EVEN IF WASN'T ALWAYS THE BT POSSIBLE STATE', SAYS GAY DJ KENNY EVERETT'S EX-WIFE
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.
THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK
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.
ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL
”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.
ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL
”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.