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Trailer for Jobriath film!

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Jobriath A.D. – a trailer for Kieran Turner’s must-see doc! Yes, folks, someone’s finally made a film about the most-OUT star of the glam era, and the trailer is fab. If Jerry Brandt’s hyping of the boy backfired horribly – and if, let’s face it, an overtly gay star never stood a chance in 70s America – Jobriath’s apocalyptic post-Diamond Dogs glam-pop really wasn’t bad… you can check it out for yourself on Spotify.

About Barney Hoskyns

Barney Hoskyns co-founded and editorially directs Rock’s Backpages. He is the author of, among other books, Across the Great Divide: The Band & America (1993), Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes & the Sound of Los Angeles (1996), Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters & Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons (2006), the Tom Waits biography Lowside of the Road (2009) and Trampled Under Foot, the oral history of Led Zeppelin (2012). Formerly US correspondent for MOJO, he resides in London's leafy East Sheen, the birthplace of rock and roll.

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