Old Wavers in the Nuddy (unsightly slight return)

 

The Sounds penchant for displaying for male nudity or near-nudity is really quite peculiar

here's another shot of Angus Young in skimpy briefs

Reference in the text to running around in his wife's skimpy knickers

Bon Scott also seen shirtless

And another shot of Angus deshabille

Gratuitous reshowing of this amazing clip found by Phil Knight

This time it's Bon Scott who's showing off his gams

Showing off more than his gams in the shot

Angus Young really is diminutive - I guess he shrewdly decided to make that work for him in the stage image 

Calling AC/DC "Old Wave" isn't quite fair - they were as punky as the punks, almost - and almost pitched to the market as the most New Wave aligned of the hard rock groups. Them and Motorhead. 

Bon showing off his bod (and dressing on the left again)

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rockstars in the nuddy (slight return)

 

Sounds again, of course - what was it with their compulsion to show hard rockers with their kit off? 

True, they went equally for salacious innuendos and cheesecake pictures of New Wave babes like Gaye Advert and Debby Harry

Perhaps it's just equal-opportunity earthiness

Readers responded in similar ways too - there was a whole running thing of letters drooling over Peter Perrett

Perhaps more honest than say, NME, about the element of concupiscence at work in rock fandom

That dainty, modesty-covering frond reminds me of the Harry G. Theaker-illustrated version of The Water-Babies, which my granny had a copy of 

Oddly the original illustrations by J. Noel Paton, despite being done at the height of Victorianism, are less coy

Or was it this Edwardian edition my granny had?

Previous installment of Halford-in-the-raw

Previous rockstar nuddy and New Wave nuddy

This post actually semi-banned by Blogger

bonus nuddy - Mike O as the Thinker

Quintessence of New Wave (1 of ??) (Rockstars in the Nuddy - slight unsightly return's return)

It wasn't just an Old Wave thing, clearly - getting the kit off - it was  a New Wave thing too

Or perhaps just a Sounds  thing. 

I don't remember NME or Melody Maker ever going in for this. 

Jape continued on the inside spread with this Two Virgins parody I'm assuming.

 

The Damned's career is quintessentially New Wave through and through -  entertaining second-rank punk, utterly unthreatening 

This one's my favorite (not the lyrical first bit so much as the single version proper, the jolly punk-it-up part) (although the lyrical first section is wonderfully unexpected)

Harmless fun innit. 

Rebranded as Sixties-epigones

Vanian's look - which comes out of Rocky Horror Show - is said by some to be antecedent to Goth.

Meanwhile Captain Sensible dwarfs the parent band's success

Allied with the mimsy Dolly Mixtures.

Capn Sensi should have formed his own political party, a la Monster Raving Loony and Screaming Lord Sutch. Stood as an MP. 

Maybe he did? 

Altern-8  - who belong in this lineage assuredly - did.  A platform of free raves for the under-10s, subsidized Vicks - something along those lines. It's in E-Flash, I can't be bothered to look it up.

He looks a bit like Harpo Marx. 

I should do Max Splodge next. (Bushell placed Slodgenessabounds at the head of a phenom he called La Punk Pathetique).

Then Tenpole Tudor.

Old Wavers in the Nuddy (slight unsightly return) (unidentified flashing object)

 

Phil Mogg, frontman of space rockers turned metal outfit UFO

From Sounds, 1979.

Is that his hand on the other side of his lower torso, or his actual knob, or side-ball? Anatomical experts adjudicate!

This is a photo that Sounds would recycle whenever the opportunity arose. 

Reference in the blurb to UFO being on Old Grey Whistle Test last week

Sounds really did seem to have a thing about displaying Phil Mogg in the near-buff

UFO got a lot of support from Sounds in this era and it wasn't always conditional on being unclothed

UFO - a band whose early records I would like to have liked more than I actually did. 

Bit like with Hawkwind. But with less of a toothsome framing. 

I have the first couple of albums, when they were UK space rock festival stalwarts. Cool logo. 

"One Hour Space Rock"

The title track "Flying" is nearly 27 minutes long.

The thematics are very Hawkwindy

As they drifted towards hard rock, UFO became a classic fourth from the top of the bill, Knebworth, Reading, sort of band. 

From the later metal-tending phase this is reputedly their stone classic. 

Are they a bit like the Hawkwind / Motorhead branch-off/de-evolution, except it all occurs in the same band and under the same name? 

Actually the evolution is exactly the same as The Scorpions, whose first few albums, I'm told, are actually pretty good space-rock. 

Indeed Michael Schenker left Scorpions and joined UFO for a while

When they were no longer post-psychedelic, UFO started having album titles combining puns and sexism. Hipgnosis covers. Songs with titles like "Highway Lady"

More nuddy business for ya - a New Waver's arse akimbo this time.. 

Force It / Faucet, geddit. "New Wavers' arse akimbo"? See the cover models are Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti earning a bit of dosh on the side. Talking about gristle throbbing, eh? 

Sleazy Christopherson worked at Hipgnosis, you see. Yet another case of Old Wave / New Wave blurring / secret continuity.

UFO kept slogging away and then Mechanix was their biggest success, got to #8 in the UK albums chart. 

Kept slogging on and on - original members dropping like flies - and then the farewell tour, set for 2022, was cancelled, on doctor's orders (Mogg had had a heart attack).

There'd been been plans for the final show to be a "rock legends cruise, a five-day event in early 2020".

I wonder what Mogg's arse looks like now. 

Married to a page 3 girl!

Nephew Nigel Mogg played bass in The Quireboys, staples of The Intrepid Fox and favorites of Melody Maker's hard rockin' Carol Clerk. 

Classic desultory blowjob in a toilet stall at the Marquee bizniz.