Word Podcast 345 - Justin Quirk on glam metal

Published: Sept. 4, 2020, 5:53 p.m.

b'Author Justin Quirk on \\u2018the direct link between Kiss and Trump\\u2019. Writer and highly entertaining metal connoisseur Justin Quirk \\u2013 the man behind Nothin\\u2019 But A Good Time: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Glam Metal \\u2013 on the age of big hair, frocks coats, cowboy boots and fabulously cartoonish stage acts that began with MTV in \\u201983, developed a \\u2018slow puncture\\u2019 with Guns N\\u2019Roses and was killed off by Nirvana in \\u201891 - includes the WWF Wrestling connection, the \\u2018branding exercise and pyramid selling scheme\\u2019 of Kiss, the key role of Ozzy Osbourne (\\u2018the world\\u2019s least convincing werewolf\\u2019), the Thiller-like construction of Def Leppard\\u2019s Hysteria, the highs of Wasp and Motley Crue, the lows of Tigertailz and Wrathchild, and Glam Metal\\u2019s last hurrah before the arrival of the age of irony. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nothin-But-Good-Time-Spectacular-ebook/dp/B08CGJN334 @justindquirkTo be \'in the room\' as these podcast interviews are recorded, subscribe to our brilliant Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon


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