ext_281244 ([identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] poptimists2006-07-21 11:47 am
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POPFITES: The Saga Continues

More than halfway through the first round of Popfites, and with BOWIE and DAPHNE added to the ranks of winners, are we any closer to finding out what makes a great pop star? Perhaps the entrance of two of the BIG GUNS will help us, ranged against a bopping elf and a pop prankster - are there shocks in the offing?


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[identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com 2006-07-21 11:27 am (UTC)(link)
marc wd have been way more of a contender if he had not died in 1977 :(

HE INVENTED HOT GOBLINISM PPL!! also when he snag "ride a white swan" on 'lift-off with ayesha" (=best pop programme EVAH) he was ACTUALLY RIDING ON A GIANT PAPIER MACHE SWAN

he is kind of the ur-poptimist, as he (very successfully) dumped hippyoid folkism for the tennybopper market

[identity profile] awesomewells.livejournal.com 2006-07-21 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
I thought Being Dead = SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF GREAT POP STAR though?

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/xyzzzz__/ 2006-07-21 11:46 am (UTC)(link)
Dead => Rock more than pop star

[identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com 2006-07-21 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
it does, but here it sadly clashes w.lack of overlap w.actual real lives of voters

[identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com 2006-07-21 11:41 am (UTC)(link)
There was a great Chris Roberts(?) piece somewhere in MM (or poss. in that MM "Unknown Pleasures" paperback) which may not have been about Bolan as such but mentioned Metal Guru getting to #1 and the impact Bolan / that event had on him and indeed an entire generation.

I only 'got' this by proxy so to speak (via my older sister), but I knew exactlky what he meant.
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