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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews WHAM! an affectionate profile of one of the most successful pop acts of the 1980s.
The UK at the beginning of the 1980s was a highly-charged environment. Thatcher’s brutal economic policies, high youth unemployment, the urban riots of the summer of 1981, and very politicized new wave and Two-Tone music scenes fuelled a tense atmosphere. George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley were best friends, having met at school in 1975…
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Simply The Best : a tribute to TINA TURNER by Queerguru’s Music Editor Allison Ananis
As a young girl growing up in Nutbush Tennessee, Anna Mae Bullock liked to sing and recite movie dialogue to entertain her family – but by age 20 she had a new name— Tina Turner—and a blossoming music career with her partner, Ike. Tina embarked on her career in the late 1950s, while still…
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Queer artist and zombie, Martin O’Brien : Overture For The End (As Ashen Place)
Queer artist and zombie, Martin O’Brien, currently the artist-in-residence at London’s renowned Whitechapel Gallery, has a fabulous new performance there on 22nd July from 6-11pm. A spectacular exploration of death and immortality, for Overture For The End (As Ashen Place) O’Brien is joined by an auspicious cast of young queers and old queens including…
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Singer/songwriter TOM GOSS talks music …. and bears
Singer/songwriter TOM GOSS …twice voted Best Gay Musician is about to launch his 9th album REMEMBER WHAT IT FEELS LIKE in Washington DC before playing gigs both there and NY . After that, he is heading to PROVINCETOWN to headline the Annual Bear Week, It’s like a second home for Goss who has always enjoyed…
