Re: [bomp] Re: Jobriath

[Michael Snider <lasciviumdei@xxxxxxxxx>]

 --- Sknoof@aol.com escribis: 
> 
> << Was there a stupid song or stupid image that we
> might recall?  The name 
> itself screams "'80s" the way Uriah Heap screams
> "'70s".  This that
> nauseating "we had to live through this shit"
> conversation again.  I'd 
> imagine there were swords involved with their album
> cover, maybe chest plates? >>
> 
> Man, did you ever get a wrong number. ;)

Extremely so. 
> 
> His name was actually Jobriath, Jobriath Boone.

His real name was Bruce Wayne Campbell. He'd served in

Nam and had been an NYC rent boy before he became
Jobriath. 

  His
> two LPs came out in '73 
> and '74, and he was a sort of post-Ziggy Stardust
> but, um, campier.  Somewhere 
> halfway between Ziggy and Frank N. Furter, without
> the deep voice.

Some Elton John in there too. He's a big
influence/fave of Morrissey's.
(Moz did the liner notes to the Jobriath reissue CD) 
He died of AIDS, iirc pretty early in the epidemic
although a 
little later than Klaus Nomi. 



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