I still like Ringo Starr’s rendition best. Asked if he was a mod or a rocker he said, “I’m a mocker.” To the best of my recollection.
More myths behind the music. Either reinforced or exposed. It’s all the same to me since I couldn’t care less what’s behind it. Only that it exists at all. And who would really want to live in a world without the music of folks like, say, David Bowie.
Or Iggy Pop. Or Kurt Cobain.
Glam rock? Okay, let’s make a buck on that! Kids have to go out and buy whole new sets of clothes, records, posters, gear. But it really did create an entirely new platform for folks to explore themselves sexually. To rethink gender norms. Gay, straight, bi?
Yeah, I like boys, I like girls. They’re all great. There’s no difference is there, Mr BBC.
You listen to the music [at the time] and you think: This is going to change the world! And it doesn’t even change you. Not really. You just go on to the next “new wave”. It’s only a matter of either figuring or not figuring this out.
Look for money. It’s everywhere. And certainly explains the advent of punk and hardcore. That still doesn’t make the music here shit though.
Or maybe this is all just a remake of Citizen Kane.
IMDb
[b]Much of the dialog comes from Oscar Wilde’s writings.
The Curt Wild character is mainly inspired by David Bowie’s relationship with two American 1960’s underground rockers whose careers Bowie resurrected, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. Iggy Pop hailed from Michigan and shared Wild’s long blond locks, while Reed underwent shock therapy for bisexuality as a teen and was rumored to have had an affair with Bowie before their falling out after Bowie produced Reed’s album Transformer.
Courtney Love considered supplying music to the film’s soundtrack, however after viewing a rough cut she withdrew, claiming that the character of Curt Wild too closely resembled her late husband Kurt Cobain both in character and physicality. The Wild/Cobain parallel later became a much-discussed point among critics, and while director Todd Haynes and actor Ewan McGregor have noted similarities between Cobain and Wild, both claim the resemblance was unintended. Haynes, for his part, notes that Cobain borrowed many style traits from Iggy Pop, who served as partial basis for the Wild character.[/b]
at wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Goldmine
trailer: youtu.be/FRY9K78uDRs
VELVET GOLDMINE [1998]
Written in part and directed by Todd Haynes
[b]Title Card: Although what you are about to see is a work of fiction, it should nevertheless be played at maximum volume.
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Child’s voice: Yesterday upon the stair
I saw a man that wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
How I wish he’d go away.
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Teacher reading to class: “There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely a record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstance, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it has been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had know them all, those strange, terrible figures that had passed along the stage of life, and made sin so marvellous and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed that in some mysterious way, their lives had been his own…”
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Cecil [voiceover]: Brian despised the hypocrisy of the peace and love generation and felt his music spoke far more to its orphans and its outcasts. His revolution, he used to say, will be a sexual one. But in 1970, rock audiences bred on Credence Clearwater and the Beatles were not entirely sure what to make of this particular brand of revolt.
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Brian [after Curt Wild has exposed himself to an audience]: They despised him.
Mandy: Yeah…
Brian: I wish I’d thought of it.
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Mandy: No, right after everything crashed we…we split…And Brian, he just became someone else. But then he always was.
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Mandy [voiceover]: It was New Year’s Eve 1969: the start of a new decade, and everywhere you went there was this sense of the future, the feeling in the air that anything was possible.
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Brian [to reporter]: I should think that if people were to get the wrong impression of me, the one to which you so eloquently refer, it wouldn’t be the wrong impression in the slightest.
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Mandy [voiceover]: For the first time in Brian’s life, he was simply telling it like it was. Did he realize what he’d actually done? How could he have? I mean today, there’d be fighting in the streets. But in 1972…it was more like dancing.
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Jerry Divine: That man sitting over there in the white suit is the biggest thing to come out of this country since sliced Beatles.
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Freddie: The first duty in life is to assume a pose. What the second duty is no one has yet found out.
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Mandy: What is true about music is true about life: that beauty reveals everything because it expresses nothing.
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Brian: Man is least himself when he talks in his own person…Give him a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.
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Mandy: It’s funny how beautiful people are when they’re walking out the door.
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Mandy: Now, just because someone sees, you know, two naked people asleep in bed together, it doesn’t necessarily prove sex was involved. It does, however, make for a very strong case.
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Mandy: It was the idea of Curt more than anything, this – image. Which, of course, no one could ever possibly live up to. I mean Maxwell Demon, Curt Wild – they were fictions! Somewhere along the way, though, Brian seemed to get lost in the lie.
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Malcolm: I don’t believe that there is much of a future to speak of.
Pearl: We’re in a bit of a decadent spiral, aren’t we?
Billy: Sinking fast.
Ray: Big Brother, baby, all the way.
Malcolm: Which is why we prefer impressions to ideas.
Billy: Situations to subjects.
Pearl: Brief flights to sustained ones.
Ray: Exceptions to types.
Pearl: And yourself?
Arthur: Well, I’m just looking for a room at the moment.
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Mandy [to Arthur]: I mean…I knew it was over. I just didn’t know it was up to me to make it stop.
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Mandy: You live in terror of not being misunderstood.
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Brian: Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
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Curt: We set out to change the world…ended up just changing ourselves.
Arthur: What’s wrong with that?
Curt: Nothing, if you don’t look at the world.[/b]