What was it with Sounds's fixation on showing rock stars in the nuddy?
A hairy man, Halford - except on his head.
Hiding in plain view...
Ooh another one pops up from Sounds Clips - not nuddy but nearly nuddy. Plus a suggestive caption.
Yes that is Angus Young of AC/DC in a skimpy, almost bikini-like set of briefs in an exotic pattern. The caption reads "the things I can do with a Bounty bar".
I like this advert for AC/DC's TV appearance in the same issue
The shot of Angus Young in his skiddies reminded me of this tome
A choice selection of its not-so-salacious contents
Previous installments of Rock Stars in the Nuddy for the steady of stomach
https://hardlybaked2.blogspot.com/2024/12/quintessence-of-old-wave-1-of-slight.html
https://hardlybaked2.blogspot.com/2025/02/old-wavers-in-nuddy-slight-unsightly.html
https://hardlybaked2.blogspot.com/2025/02/quintessence-of-new-wave-1-of-rockstars.html
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Late breaking addition - an amazing discovery by Phil in comments, a clip of Bon Scott in the near-nuddy for an Aussie pop TV show, wandering around Covent Garden almost completely unclothed but for skimpy jean shorts
Clearly dressing on the left there, Bon
Is that a banana or are you just pleased to see me?
Cheeky monkeys of pop, part 27
The gang rushing to the pub
Incredible scenes:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggDAkbu6D78
Amazing find.
DeleteI hadn't realized how tiny Angus Young was. Almost like he's from some precursor species to Homo Superior.
And then Bon Scott in denim hot pants, or short-shorts, and nothing else. Has he even got shoes on?
The interviewer is spectacularly poor at his job...
Great clip! There has been some discourse recently about how old Angus looks now. To be fair, he is showing every one of his 70 years on earth and 53 years in rock’n’roll. But as Simon says, he has always looked not entirely human. Nowadays his wizened face and straggly hair only add to the effect.
DeleteRick Parfitt was no stranger to cotton wool, it seems.
ReplyDeleteWhere did that obsession with non-sexual - or at least not primarily sexual - nudity come from?
ReplyDeleteIt all seems to be downstream of John and Yoko’s Two Virgins album sleeve. And nudity was a big theme in Ono’s work in the sixties. Was she really the start of it all?
I was going to comment on the Roxy post earlier about how much of pop culture in the seventies was just footnotes to the Beatles. Through the leather, the suits, the Edwardian uniforms, the robes, etc, clothes and style generally were massively important to their appeal. Is nudity yet another fashion that they set?
DeleteGoes way back, Ed:
Deletehttps://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-die-brucke-summer-nudist-colony/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Verit%C3%A0
The counter-culture began in the 1900's, not the 1960's.
I have vague recall of a programme shown eventually on Channel 4 in the mid-90s hosted by Ms Yates, that apparently wasn't shown at the time (mid to late 80s) cos it was too raunchy. PY wd ask a series of mulleted popstars (eg Andrew Ridgeley, him from the Blow Monkeys etc), about their feelings and attitudes to sex and music and fame and make them all blush, interspersed with video clips. I thought it was hilarious at the time.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the AC/DC clip, I remember ex MM writer Andrew Mueller being caustic in his memories of Oz music TV about the Countdown (the Oz OGWT?) presenter being this wearisome hapless type who was unavoidably the go-to guy when it came to music on the box. And in fairness plenty of YouTube clips from the 70s and 80s seem to be from Countdown as well as the post-midnight show Rage