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Birkitts Books presents ... Wham Bam Thank You Glam: A Celebration of the 70's ISBN: 1854105876 Author: Jeremy Novick Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd Release Date: 1998-10-31 Seller Category: History Qty Available: 1 Condition: Used: Very Good Sku: 240908050 Notes: Jacket has shelf wear, edgewear, binding tight, tops of pages have a slight wrinkle, pages clean and unmarked. Come On, Come On, ComeOn, Come On, Come On,Come On, Come On...I SAID!From A-line flares to Zebedee. from David Cassidy to the Austin Princess Vanden Plas. Wham Bam Thank You Glam is the first, the last, the everything you'll ever need to remember those halcyon days of the 70s when men wore cheesecloth and women teetered on six-inch platforms.This is more than just a celebration of Glam music (although there's lots of that in here). this is a celebration of the whole glorious shebang - the clothes! the telly! the cars! the football! the sweeties: All recalled in fantastic dayglo shades of poptastic colour by some the real heroes of Glam.All that Glitters is not gold - it could be Bacofoil - but it is exciting. The years between 1969 and 1976 (Punk year zero) were a riot of colour, humour, funny clothes, flash cars, weird sweeties and bizarre telly. People really did wear sea-green forty-inch flares and silver six-inch platforms while swigging a lime Crests and sitting in a bright yellow Ford Capri Mk I - and they weren't all members of Mud or Paper Lace. The Glam years were strangely naive, yet widely debauched, the music was a brash over-played version of rock'n'roll with big drums and daft lyrics, the fashion tried to make bricklayers built like outhouses look like Quentin Crisp. Yes, it was a lot of fun, as our guides to the Glam years will testify within these pages.- in the immortal words of that cool white bear:'It's frothy, man!' "Glam Music can be broken up into three distinct groups. The Chinnichap merchants, the Teenyboppers and the Geezers who just happened to be there ..." - oversimplifying matters, perhaps - what about Bowie, Roxy, Marc, Mael bro's, Iggy, Lou, Dolls and all the other space invaders from planet art? - but not a million miles wide of the truth." Don't forget to check out other great deals in our Store!!