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A History of Sexual Indulgence Chapters X, XI & XII Jobriath (Paperback)
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A History of Sexual Indulgence Chapters X, XI & XII Jobriath (Paperback)
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Loot Price R394
Discovery Miles 3 940
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My personal witness, as the multiple keyboard player/back-ground
singer and one of the Creatures of the Street, in the band
JOBRIATH, during our ten month journey, starting with my audition,
then the band's rehearsal for the Midnight Special and subsequent
national tour, all against the homophobic backlash which Bruce
Wayne Campbell, a.k.a. Jobriath's own self-outing made him a "dead
man walking." We played on. Even the gay community resented him
being paraded as their "'poster child, ' demonstrating attributes
they loathed in themselves." Though the rest of the band was
straight, so extreme was this hostility, we were specifically not
booked in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Detroit, for fear of us being
physically harmed. Even in New York, we were booed off the stage at
the Nassau Coliseum for being "fagots." Jerry Brandt, was
Jobriath's larger-than-life manager. Like Colonel Parker to Elvis,
Jerry created a huge hype machine that took America and Britain by
storm: "Elvis, The Beatles, Jobriath " With only fifty thousands
dollars and a single album record deal, Jerry created a
half-a-million dollar media blitz and a mountain of jealousy that
would subsequently be impossible to overcome.
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