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“Ricky was a young boy, he had a heart of stone./Tequila in his heartbeat, his veins burned gasoline./18 and life you got it.”
― Skid Row

“Michael [Hutchence] is hands down one of the greatest frontmen in music. The style, the voice鈥攁ll of it. Any way that I was ever influenced by him really comes down to small, pale imitations compared to the real thing. There is a fearlessness about him. Watching him at Wembley Stadium with 70,000 people, he looks as comfortable as if he were in his own living room.”
― Lori Majewski, Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s

“Lloyd moved to the blackboard and wrote 鈥楳aneater, Hall and Oates鈥� at the bottom of a long list of songs and artists.

The blackboard in the kitchen had once been installed as a way of communication for the house. It had turned into a list of Songs That You Would Never See In The Same Light Again. This was basically a list of songs that our serial killing landlord had blared at one time or another at top volume to cover the sound of his heavy electric power tools. It was a litany of 70鈥檚 and 80鈥檚 music.

Blondie, Heart of Glass was on the list. So was Duran Duran鈥檚 鈥楬ungry like the Wolf鈥�. Sam had jokingly given him an Einst眉rzende Neubauten CD on the premise that his tools would blend right in to the music, and he鈥檇 returned it the next day, saying it was too suspicious-sounding and made him very nervous for some reason. The next weekend, we had gone right back to the 80鈥檚 with the Missing Persons and Dead or Alive.

I tried not to think about why he was playing the music, but it was a little hard not to think about. The strange thumps sometimes suggested that he鈥檇 gotten a live one downstairs and was merrily bashing in their skull in the name of his psoriasis to the tune of 鈥業t鈥檚 My Life鈥� by Talk Talk. Other times I listened in horror as my favorite Thomas Dolby songs were accompanied by an annoying high-pitched buzzsaw whine that altered as if it had entered some sort of solid tissue. He never borrowed music from us again 鈥� he claimed our music was too disturbing and dark, and shunned our offerings of Ministry and Nine Inch Nails in favor of some颅thing nice and happy by Abba. You鈥檝e never had a restless night from imagining someone deboning a human body while blaring 鈥榃aterloo鈥� or 鈥楩ernando鈥�. It鈥檚 not fun.”
― Darren McKeeman, City of Apocrypha

“it was as if the ghosts of their youth had risen from their graves, strutting and preening in skintight leather and overly teased hair.”
― River L. Davis, Gnarly Little Thrill

“Not long after that, the questions came: Why you? Drag had been around forever. Why had I been able to crack the code after so many false starts and almosts?
But I knew they would never understand the delicate choreography I鈥檇 done to make it all work. I鈥檇 mastered the art of naughty-lite: two spoonfuls of Diana Ross, a pinch of Cher, a shake of Dolly Parton, all sealed with Walt Disney鈥檚 family-friendliness. Before, I had been blurry鈥攃onfusing, a thing that only some people could understand. Finally, I had snapped into focus, just in time for the whole world to see.
The eighties, with all its excess and opulence, had also been marred by darkness: the heaviness of crack cocaine, the AIDS epidemic, the crashes of S&Ls in the markets. There was a yearning for levity in the culture, the very same irreverence and sense of play that had animated me my whole life.
A window opened. I stepped through it.”
― RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings