This guy tanked, and if ya hear of him at all, you hear of him as a joke. Gotta say though: Though he owes a huge amount to David Bowie, I think he's got his own musicality and a nice Lou-meets-Mick style to him. Wish I'd known about him back in the day. This was right up my alley, taste-wise.
The other thing about him is that he was the first openly gay national rock act. With a $500,000 (mid-seventies, US dollars: probably multiple millions today) record deal. They got him everywhere you got a rock act in those days, media-wise. People really wanted this to work, but it was way too much, way too soon for this neanderthal country. And the Bowie thing did hurt him. Died of complications due to aids in 1983, but he was out of rock 'n' roll long before that.
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Wow! Would like to hear more songs. The 70's were more treasure trove than wasteland; there's more and more stuff coming that seems like punk sort of swept away. Which wasn't all bad but in the case of Jade Warrior or Alex Harvey maybe it was. cool stuff.
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