LEGS MCNEIL: Glitter rock was about decadence: platform shoes and boys in eye makeup, David Bowie and androgyny. Rich rock stars living their lives from Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories, you know, Sally Bowles hanging out with drag queens, drinking champagne for breakfast and having ménages à trois, while the Nazis slowly grab the power. Decadence seemed so lame, because decay suggests that there’s still some time, and there wasn’t any more time. Things had collapsed. We had lost the war in Vietnam to a bunch of guys with sticks in black pajamas. Vice President Spiro Agnew had to resign
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