PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Mark Paytress has been a regular feature writer for MOJO for over two decades and has interviewed many of glam rock's major players, including Alice Cooper, The Faces, Mott The Hoople, The Move, Suzi Quatro, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Roxy Music, Slade, The Spiders From Mars, The Sweet, T. Rex and Wizzard. He is also the author of Bolan: The Rise and Fall Of A 20th Century Superstar and two books on David Bowie, including Bowie Style.
'Gorgeously illustrated history. In Glam!, Paytress lovingly charts the stack-heeled ascent of this new pop, tracing the careers of big beasts David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Slade and Elton John, as well as the Chinnichap strain of hits. The narrative is stuffed with cross-cultural details... a scrapbook bulge of illustrations. 4*' MOJO 'Breathlessly reimbuing the era with fresh excitement... this lavishly illustrated, exquisitely designed volume. The Sunday supplements have a word for histories like this: Magisterial. 5*' Shindig! 'Lavish deep-dive into an era that changed everything. A detailed and illuminating account of a much-misunderstood genre. A sumptuous picture book, full of instant, easy illustrations that bring Paytress' text to life. Glam! rewires the narrative to give a sense of what actually happened. 4*' Daryl Easlea, Record Collector
