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Re: [bomp] Re: Jobriath




check out jobriath.org....amazing, in thirty years i never would have thought anyone would have remembered this footnote.  the story would make a great screenplay.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Snider" <lasciviumdei@yahoo.com>
To: bomp@xnet2.com
Subject: Re: [bomp] Re: Jobriath
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 13:06:01 -0600 (CST)

> 
> 
>   --- Sknoof@aol.com escribis:
> >
> > << Was there a stupid song or stupid image that we
> > might recall?  The name itself screams "'80s" the way Uriah Heap screams
> > "'70s".  This that
> > nauseating "we had to live through this shit"
> > conversation again.  I'd imagine there were swords involved with their album
> > cover, maybe chest plates? >>
> >
> > Man, did you ever get a wrong number. ;)
> 
> Extremely so.
> >
> > His name was actually Jobriath, Jobriath Boone.
> 
> His real name was Bruce Wayne Campbell. He'd served in
> 
> Nam and had been an NYC rent boy before he became
> Jobriath.
> 
>    His
> > two LPs came out in '73 and '74, and he was a sort of post-Ziggy Stardust
> > but, um, campier.  Somewhere halfway between Ziggy and Frank N. 
> > Furter, without
> > the deep voice.
> 
> Some Elton John in there too. He's a big
> influence/fave of Morrissey's.
> (Moz did the liner notes to the Jobriath reissue CD)
> He died of AIDS, iirc pretty early in the epidemic
> although a
> little later than Klaus Nomi.
> 
> 
> 
> =====
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> should be encouraged. - Justice Vincent Scalia
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