My late wife and I last saw him when he was touring the "Manners & Physique" album here in the U.S. around the turn of the century. First and only time (so far) I've been front row (grabbing the guard rail, no less) at a proper concert. Good show, Adam was in good voice, danced around a bit if the effort didn't cause him to lose his breath, and we had a great time.
I wanted to be this:
Wow, I can only talk late 70s early 80s myself. I don't even recognize these gurls, but the interwebs tell me this is from 2023. Will have to listen after work. Thanks for the lead.
Yeah I can hear it in your posts. You sound like a badass.
I'm impressed by so many things right now. Thank you Edward. [thumbs up icon]Yes, he hard a hard couple of years, greatly exacerbated by the way the tabloid press sensationalised it. He seems to be doing well again now, which is great.
Heh. It is kinda funny, though when you scratch the surface.... It's not that uncommon in the UK. Depending on age, you tend to find a huge chunk of the 'vintage' scene here are old punks, goths, and/or new romantics who aged into a vintage look for various reasons. Adam and the rest of the New Romantic scene was particularly about a defiant sense of dandyism in the economically depressed UK of the turn of the eighties - a form of rebellion of sorts you see elsewhere at different times, too. The sapeurs of the Congo, for instance. Rockabilly tends to be where the punks end up; new romantics and goths go vintage. Steampunks are essentially cybergoths who discovered brown.
There's a whole story behind that guitar as well. As memory serves, it was an incredibly rare Gretsch. It's not on the record, but it was sourced for the visual vibe for that shoot for the cover of the album(?) / single(?). Poor old GM. I have to admit I'd really quite written him off as a bit of a washed up former pop star until after he died, when it all came out just how much he was quietly doing for charity (nurses and homeless people particularly) without fanfare. (Likely harder these days when it all ends up on social media, of course.)
As I recall the BSA jacket was an original rocker piece that he or a stylist saw somewhere and picked out for stagewear.
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