Al Green needed that sartorial makeover that had him wear those white suits with white shoes (and, somehow, black socks). Here he is in 1971 on his first Soul Train appearance, with glam boxing boots, vinyl hot pants, a mauve vinyl top that makes you glad he sported no chest hair, a matching pimp hat at a jaunty angle, gold chain and a handbag.
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The Bee Gees - wholesome harmony juniors to disco titans in white flares
Belinda Carlisle - LA punk rebel to poster-friendly chart queen
The Byrds - psychedelic janglers to countrified geetar pluckers
Fleetwood Mac - muso-friendly UK blues merchants to multi-platinum US stadium-fillers
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Tori Amos - hair rock to sensitive singer-pianist
Jefferson Airplane / Starship - hippie pioneers to hair rock
Peter Gabriel - prog rock to sharp suited yuppie pop
Primal Scream - skinny trousered C86 types to ravers (see also Soup Dragons and others) to skinny trousered / not C86 types.
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There's already a thread divergence here – wasn't G-Man talking specifically about artists' appearance, which was my initial assumption? With the greatest of respect to Satchmo's eloquent descriptions immediately above, for example, I don't think there's an 'angry young misogynist' look per se.
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The young Depeche Mode took a little while to, er, refine their look during their early 'tinkly-bonk' Vince Clarke era, and immediately afterward:
The black leather etc. style that emerged within the next couple of years probably suited them better.
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(I don't think Mark E Smith has ever been 'young'.)
Perhaps the most obvious one of all:
David Bowie -
Pudding-bowl-haired Anthony Newley-admirer
Astronaut
Androgynous glam star
Thin White Duke-era soul man
Urban alien
Sharp-suited eighties artisan
Avuncular English gent
...and no doubt others.
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Originally posted by Various Artist View PostThe young Depeche Mode took a little while to, er, refine their look during their early 'tinkly-bonk' Vince Clarke era, and immediately afterward:
The black leather etc. style that emerged within the next couple of years probably suited them better.
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OK, just on the visuals:
Elvis Costello - geeky to beardy
Beatles - as above: leather to suits to hippy garb
Take That - immature to mature, so to speak
Boyzone - gay to straight (by implication)
Bananarama - Tomboyish to more conventional girl groupLast edited by Satchmo Distel; 13-11-2017, 17:03.
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Marc Bolan - flowered-up acoustic hippie poet to electrified glam heart-throb (with requisite garb)
The Beloved - serious, C-86 bedsit indie boys to blissed-out rave-lite dance disciples (with requisite garb)
The Shamen - druggy, psych-rock also-rans to druggy, techno-dance chart regulars (with requisite garb)
Miley Cyrus - innocuous kiddie pop/TV favourite to low-rent, arse-gyrating tabloid-fodder (without requisite garb)
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostMC Hammer tried to go Gangsta for while.
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