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Metallica, Extreme, Def Leppard, Bob Geldof, Spinal Tap, Guns N' Roses, David Bowie, George Michael, Elton John, Annie Lennox, Robert Plant, Lisa Stansfield, Liza Minnelli: Various Artists: The Freddie Mercury Tribute, Concert For Aids Awareness, Wembley Stadium, London

Live Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 2 May 1992

IT'S, UH, KINDA TRAGIC ...

Sweet, David Bowie, Gary Glitter, T. Rex, Roxy Music: Divine Decadence: Memories Of Glam

Retrospective by Jon Savage, Gadfly, October 1998

GLAM — or as it was originally called in the UK, Glitter Rock — flourished from early summer 1972 to summer 1974: shorter than Hippie, ...

David Bowie: Tin Machine: Versus

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, October 1991

PICTURE THIS: you are in a sex shop in Sydney (for whatever twisted reasons people have for patronising such institutions), and this scholarly-looking gent with ...

10cc, Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias, Beatles, The, Bongwater, Bonzo Dog Band, David Bowie, Darkness, The, Flying Lizards, The, Gary Glitter, Nick Lowe, Mothers Of Invention, The, Move, The, John Oswald, Redd Kross, Residents, The, Roxy Music, Todd Rundgren, Rutles, The, Spinal Tap, Alvin Stardust, Tubes, The, Turtles, The, Utopia, Wizzard, Weird Al Yankovic, Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction, Laibach, Dukes of Stratosphear, The, First Class, The, Detergents, The, Morgan Fisher, Shockabilly, Culturcide, James Ferraro, Little Pain, Hannah Diamond, QT: Killer Riffs: A Guide to Parody in Popular Music

Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 October 2016

From the Residents' freakish Beatles sendups, to Spinal Tap's meta-metal escapades, to the gastronomic goofs of "Weird Al", a chronicle of those who have turned ...

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