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  • As she argued the Eurosceptic case with passionate pride in the way English democracy has developed since the Glorious Revolution of 1688, sitting in her black platform glamrock boots, black stockings and hot pants, she resembled nothing less than a leggy, pouting, pneumatically Eurosceptic John Redwood at the high point of his recent intervention in the EU Budget scrutiny debate.

    Spice Girls back sceptics on Europe 2007

  • Night on Bald Mountain and Ride of the Valkyries on glamrock acid.

    Largehearted Boy 2009

  • Keanu made "bogus" go out of style almost immediately after he said it. themuskrat: @cynicaldad: glamrock. closely akin to guilty pleasures. themuskrat: @FreakyWeasel: His name isn't Emerson!

    WordPress.com News muskrat 2008

  • I’ve heard it all — cryptohomo guitar-blowjob glamrock crossed with Swedish ambient-industrial, a Napalm Death-style all-midget Tom Jones cover band; an opera singer who gets fisted onstage while singing “The Magic Flute;” nothing can shock me and most of it doesn’t even get a raised eyebrow let alone a “Dude, did he just say that?”

    Pink Steel: Out at the Devil « Skid Roche 2007

  • First, these cats didn’t get rid of Hammer, they were the death knell for glamrock leather clad rockers who dressed like women Warrant, Poision, Def leppard, Motley Crew, etc and who had been forced down our throats by MTV.

    Another Nirvana anniversary... | EW.com 2006

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