LA's Glam Revival And The Glitzy Return of Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco
Paul Gorman, MOJO, March 2000
Something strange is happening on the streets of Los Angeles. Glam-metal kids, 17 years out of date, are back walking the streets. Ambivalent Bowie-esque sexuality is, once again, all the rage. So, with an uncanny sense of timing, DJ and perennial local scenester Rodney Bingenheimer couldn't have chosen a better time to revive his English Disco, the club which became a byword for depravity and rock excess in the early '70s.
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