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Saturday, October 01, 2016
Here's a remixed excerpt from SHOCK AND AWE - taken from "Aftershocks", the book's extended coda wherein I track the echoes and reflections of glam as they reverberate through the Eighties, Nineties and into the 21st Century. It's a slideshow of snapshots across Lady Gaga's career to date, looking at her as the 21st Century's first digi-glam superstar and assessing her claim to be the inheritor of David Bowie's art-pop provocations.