As a few people have noted, the universe - as revealed in greater detail and depth than ever by the new Webb Telescope images - looks a bit glitterball disco-rama.
In fact what it reminded me of fairly instantly is the staging for this TV rendition of "Fame" by David Bowie. The lighting struck me before as a fabulous evocation of the space of celebrity itself. Hats off to the Cher Show lighting director and crew!
Peel anticipates junkshop glam - at the time - in this survey of 1974 written for Sounds.
..."top teen bands such as Slade and Sweet and Mud have made records which collectors will be collecting avidly, as collectors always do, in a few years time"
As for the schoolgirl uniform - tempting as it is to see it as a glam cross-dressing move, the fear is that it points to more dubious tastes - the parallel would be less with simpering Steve Priest of The Sweet, (who said of his glam-era image "I looked like a 9 year old girl") than with sweaty-palmed Gazzer Glitter....
“I would rather have been raining kisses on her eager, upturned
face” – not even hiding in plain sight is it?
I didn't know the music journalist and author Mark Spitz - who has died tragically young - very well, but I always enjoyed chatting...