The Boomtown Rats have created a 21st century response to their 1978 hit, She’s So Modern. Out now, Trash Glam Baby was inspired by a visit to a charity shop on the Kings Road in London. Bob Geldof poetically explained: “There was a glorious kid of around 16/17 talking to her friend behind the counter. She was fabulous.
Like a bastard hybrid of the New York Dolls and early Roxy Music. A sequined tramp. A living glitterball. She wasn’t beautiful (but she was), a pleasant, normal girl from the blocks down the road, who intuitively understood the theatre of the self, which that peculiar part of the world has always engendered since the bohemians of the late 19th century through to the 60s and the Stones, the 70s and the Pistols, the 80s and Durans/Antony Price shop and then – like the rest of the 90s – not much. But here she was again, doing that unique thing English teens uniquely do, a grumpy, normal English teenager being extraordinary, looking the bollocks.”
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