OUR DINNER WITH ANDROGYNES
They're hitting America fast and hard, this latest generation of British musicians. Bizarre names blur across the charts. Songs with inaudible guitars come to be called rock hits. Photos appear in magazines, enticing but weird, suggesting a conspiracy of frozen cynicism afoot.
OUR DINNER WITH ANDROGYNES
THE NEW BRITISH INVASION 1983-?
Surely you suspected something when those pictures of Boy George and Annie Lennox hit the cover of Newsweek. And Rolling Stone. And Boy's Life. And Highlights. Yep, it's the time of season for cross-dressing. And speaking of crosses, there's Duran Duran, who perhaps wield the largest one imaginable for all of us, in our way, to bear. Herein writer J. Kordosh speaks of the "current" British Invasion, the one responsible for the bands above and, as he'll explain, too many more. What does it all mean? Don't ask the irrepressible J.l
J. KORDOSH