: About Me

My passion is ...

Music

I know too much about ...

Music

My parents always told me ...

That I was the trouble-maker

My childhood ambition ...

To sing and to be a teacher

My favorite memory ...

The birth of my daughter

Why I write ...

I just always have.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I am reading Son of a Witch, by Gregory MacGuire, Listening to Gorillaz- Demon Days. Yes Still.

My first job ...

Painting houses for my Uncle.

My best moment ...

When I left home for the first time.

My inspiration ...

My children, my mother and sisters, and Damon Albarn.

Entertainment > Music Genres, Trends & Scenes What is glam rock?

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In the 50's and 60's, rock stars wore coordinating suits and hair. In the 70's rock stars were cool as long as they sparkled. In the 80's, a rock star was not a man if he didn't have long hair,make-up, and Spandex. Think: Poison, Motley Crue, Van Halen, etc.,etc. But to say that hair and make-up alone are what made "glam rock" is to deny that it had any real effect on music culture even still today. Glam rock was a lifestyle. It was indeed born from an apparent need to see how much a big scruffy man could make himself as much like a woman as possible in visual and audible sorts of ways and...

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