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	Jobriath - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jobriath was the stage name of Bruce Wayne Campbell (December 14, 1946 in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania - August 3, 1983) a glam rock singer of 1973 and 1974.
		Jobriath is credited as the first mass-marketed pop star, and the first to be openly gay.
		Jobriath's first LP (self-titled) was well-reviewed, but commercially was not a huge success.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jobriath (413 words)

	Jobriath: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jobriath is most well-known as a Glam Glam rock quick summary:
		Glam rock (less commonly glitter rock), a style of rock music popularized in the 1970s, was mostly a british phenomenon and confined to larger cities in the...
		Jobriath is most well-known as a glam singer of 1973 and 1974....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/jobriath.htm (598 words)

	Johann Hari - Archive
		Jobriath was booked that Christmas to perform at the Paris Opera House, where he was to perform one of the most audacious rock stunts of a decade addicted to rock stunts.
		Jobriath is impossible to summarise in one glib paragraph.
		Jobriath began to turn on Brandt, whose last comment on the singer was to describe him as "a fucking alcoholic asshole".
	www.johannhari.com /archive/article.php?id=377 (1714 words)

	Jobriath: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But for at least two decades after their release, their maker's name was more likely to be evoked as an example of the dangers of hype, than anything else, with the actual quality of both his music and his performance deeply buried beneath the avalanche of scorn which knowing critics still pour on his head.
		At the height of glam rock, Jobriath was being portrayed as the glammiest artist of them all -- and when the inevitable comparisons with David Bowie [+] were floated, Brandt knew precisely how to respond.
		Brandt dropped Jobriath from his roster midway through the outing and immediately the tour was over and Jobriath announced his retirement.
	www.music.com /person/jobriath/1 (967 words)

	Jobriath: the Mojo article
		Jobriath and Jerry claimed they had booked places on board the first Pan Am flight to the moon, while the singer maintained he was from outer space.
		One reviewer shrewdly observed Jobriath was more like "a slightly decadent Tab Hunter playing a Beverly Hills niterie than a rock'n'roll phenomenon", and that his "melodramatic tone seemed out of proportion to his surroundings, like a grand opera staged on a flat-bed trailer".
		It is unlikely that Jobriath will be represented - "he was an alcoholic asshole" is one of the few things a curiously tight-lipped Brandt will say today about the protégé he once described as "a leader, as a force, as a manipulator of beauty and art".
	www.crapfromthepast.com /jobriath/mojo.htm (2069 words)

	Messageboard For Love Fans - Jobriath
		One of these links was talking about Poletti, that this person's claim to be Jobriath's #1 fan and that he alone was responsible for releasing any recorded tunes of Jobriath was unsubstantiated.
		I believe that at the time of Jobriath's death, he was living in a small room in NYC high up and next to a billboard, with no utilities at all.
		Jobriath actually was in a sort of folkie band in the late 60s before he became Jobriath, they put one album out I think, but I can't remember the name.
	love.torbenskott.dk /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1008 (643 words)

	GLAM-OU-RAMA Reviews
		Jobriath was born Bruce Cambell in 1946, and by the mid 60s had changed his name to Jobriath Salisbury and was performing in the successful Broadway hit, Hair as Woof.
		Jobriath was openly gay and Brandt attempted to use this as a marketing ploy.
		However before this could happen Electra (the label Brandt had signed Jobriath to) pulled the plug on the funding (they'd always been embarassed to have a gay performer in their books and were happier to ruin his career than have a success such were the feelings against gays 30 years ago in some quarters).
	www.glam-ou-rama.co.uk /reviews_show.asp?id=77 (1120 words)

	Perfect Sound Forever- Jobriath: Rock's First Gay Icon
		He began referring to himself as Jobriath, a contraction of "Job" and "Goliath." His piano playing and vocal ability impressed the producers of Hair, and he joined the famed Aquarius Theatre cast, playing the part of Woof until he was fired for "upstaging" other cast members.
		Jobriath, introduced by host Gladys Knight, wore a circular spacesuit costume and received polite applause from the studio audience.
		Jobriath remained an enigma for years, rarely cited in the rock press and not even mentioned in Jerry Brandt's autobiography.
	www.furious.com /perfect/jobriath.html (887 words)

	Jobriath - Jobriath: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Jobriath [+]'s voice falls somewhere between vaudeville over-elucidation and operatic emphasis; his lyrics ooze pierrots, aliens, and movie stars, and his arrangements make Queen [+] sound like an underachieving garage band.
		Jobriath [+] made a millstone, but the parallels are apparent all the same.
		But if Jobriath [+] (like Bat Out of Hell) is awash in brain-charring overkill, the surfeit is by no means gratuitous -- or rather, it is, but only because it needs to be.
	www.music.com /release/jobriath/1 (401 words)

	HIGH BIAS -- Jobriath
		For nearly three decades, Jobriath was more a myth than a man. His story is best told by those who've done the research (such as Robert Cochrane, who wrote the liner notes for this collection and has a full-length biography in the works), but here's the Cliffs Notes version.
		The man born Bruce Wayne Campbell was a piano prodigy as a youth and spent time in both the Army and in a "hippie rock ensemble" called Pidgeon.
		Jobriath's second album isn't nearly as strong as his first, and the nearly equal footing given each record doesn't help the second's material as much as it hurts the stuff from the first.
	www.highbias.com /reviews/20041205_long2.html (491 words)

	Rainbow Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Born Bruce Wayne Campbell in Pennsylvania, Jobriath was a pianist and actor before he was discovered by svengali Jerry Brandt who got him signed in the early 1970s to the then hip record label Elektra.
		Jobriath gaily described himself as "the true fairy of rock 'n' roll" but the truth is that at that time, even in the wilder reaches of the music business, being an out and proud homosexual was unallowed.
		Jobriath released one successful album, but his follow up, Creatures of the Street bombed, he was dropped by Brandt and Elektra, and faded into obscurity and an early death.
	www.rainbownetwork.com /Music/detail.asp?iData=22020&iCat=65&iChannel=17&nChannel=Music (448 words)

	Jobriath - Lonely Planet Boy
		Musically, Jobriath does sound familiar (this is glam rock, after all); David Bowie is the clear touchstone, and there are elements of the New York Dolls, Brian Eno, and T. Rex scattered throughout as well.
		Bowie tried to be an alien rock star with Ziggy Stardust, but Jobriath actually seems like an alien, both in his manner and his outlook, and that`s what makes his music so fascinating, unique, and weirdly vibrant decades after it was recorded.
		Jobriath may have been dismissed at the time, but Lonely Planet Boy proves he was a man out of time, a visionary who couldn`t be understood even in the heady heights of glam in the early `70s.
	www.notlame.com /Browse_by_Artist/J/Jobriath/Page_9/CDJOBR1.html (344 words)

	Jobriath - Tried to be the next Bowie - TW David Bowie Conversation Piece - Forums powered by WWWThreads
		Jobriath tried to cash in on the glitter-rock trend and turned out to be one of the most costly and least successful hypes in rock history.
		After Jobriath and Brandt cinched the Elektra deal, they secured a 43 × 41-foot Times Square billboard of the star nearly nude (a reproduction of the LP jacket) and set up what they claimed was a $200,000 stage debut at the Paris Opera House.
		Jobriath shares the rare quality with Bowie and Bolan that they could pull it off to dress up in glam attire and actually look natural in it.
	www.teenagewildlife.com /Interact/cp/showflat.pl?Board=coffee&Number=441321 (865 words)

	CMT.com : Jobriath : Biography
		However, both Morrissey and the Pet Shop Boys have talked openly of their admiration for Jobriath, Jayne County has described him as America's premier glam rock idol and Mark Stewart is an unlikely, but equally loyal fan.
		The record went nowhere and Jobriath split for a solo career, managed by former Jimi Hendrix associate Mike Jefferies.
		At the height of glam rock, Jobriath was being portrayed as the glammiest artist of them all -- and when the inevitable comparisons with David Bowie were floated, Brandt knew precisely how to respond.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/jobriath/bio.jhtml (931 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Jerry Brandt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		New York's first glimpse of Jobriath will be in the form of a 46-foot high statue of a nude Jobriath made from a synthetic substance that resembles china and will cost Elektra/Asylum $22,000.
		Jobriath is a self-proclaimed "true fairy" who's just released his first album and projected his first image - that of a space-age Pierrot.
		Jobriath's manager, Jerry Brandt, claimed to have discovered him by overhearing a demo that Columbia Records was about to pass up.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Brandt_Jerry_112556292.htm (1188 words)

	Jobriath : Jobriath - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Jobriath's voice falls somewhere between vaudeville over-elucidation and operatic emphasis; his lyrics ooze pierrots, aliens, and movie stars, and his arrangements make Queen sound like an underachieving garage band.
		Jobriath made a millstone, but the parallels are apparent all the same.
		But if Jobriath (like Bat Out of Hell) is awash in brain-charring overkill, the surfeit is by no means gratuitous -- or rather, it is, but only because it needs to be.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,110444,00.html (389 words)

	the Jobriath Fan Collective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		and foregoing the elaborate orchestrations and solo piano pieces that were the highlights of his previous work, Jobriath keeps things in more traditional rock n' roll setting for the songs that were intended for his third album.
		Initially I was a little disappointed, as much of the grandiose drama of the first two records was missing, replaced by a much rockier band sound.
		At the heart of all the melodrama, fantasy, passion and bravado is a stark truth and sincerity.
	www.jobriath.org /release/3lp.html (632 words)

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		While he paved his own way, he was derided as merely a cheap American Bowie clone (never mind that Jobriath was rocking the pierrot clown hat and white makeup a full seven years before Bowie would do so in the "Ashes to Ashes" video).
		Despite bright hopes, heaps of talent, and sass to spare, "Jobriath" Bruce Wayne Campbell died of AIDS in 1983, alone in his suite at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City after a life filled with sex, drugs and booze.
		You can find a few Jobriath tracks on Limewire, or listen to the entire first and second albums here at Ron "Boogiemeister's" excellent "Crap From the Past" homepage.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=5216919&postID=108570298647824848 (313 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Glitter, Glitter, Toil and Titter
		Against the crescendos of two guitars, drums, and piano, Jobriath's voice is strong--Jagger-like in its harshness.
		Jobriath leaps backstage, and returns as a "Space Clown." Pink ruffled mask coyly over his eyes, pink satin G-string in place, Jobriath mimes juggling.
		Jobriath has less than a minute to peel out of his leotards.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=145360 (896 words)

	Jobriath: The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
		Steven and Jobriath were pioneers and they paid a price to be open in a hostile world.
		Jobriath was going to appear that weekend (1974) at a popular club in New Jersey called "The Joint in The Woods" in order to get a reaction from the crowd and to warm up for his debut at Manhattan's "Bottomline".
		From the blatant rip off of Jobriath's first lp on you can "see" Jobriath everywhere as well as Miss Haynes agony that the British Glam idols he worshiped in his youth were all fakes and the only real Gay man was Jobriath - an American.
	www.geocities.com /jobriath_2000 (1658 words)

	Morrissey-solo \| Jobriath featured on VH1 special
		They covered Jobriath's highly promoted debut as well as his personal crash when his record company made a mess of his career.
		Jobriath eventually ended up as a polished pianist singing show tunes in New York under a pseudonym until his death from AIDS in 1983.
		I think this is significant not only because of his audible influence on Morrissey but because it represented a negative shift in the early 1980's Glam music scene as stars like Jobriath and the irrepressible Klaus Nomi succumbed to the AIDS epidemic.
	www.morrissey-solo.com /articles/01/08/13/0725246.shtml (557 words)

	Jobriath: endless revulsion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jobriath was "sent packing" and died an unfortunate death - alone, of AIDS, his body rotting for days - in 1983.
		Jobriath went back to L.A., to begin to rest of his life as an actual person.
		He did not die alone - a detail entirely made up in the 1990s by an English journalist - but there is a feeling all along of Jobriath having been a corpse.
	www.jobriath.org (586 words)

	Jobriath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Noted as one of Morrissey's favorite artists, Jobriath had a remarkably brief career, comprised of 2 albums and a few singles in the early 70's.
		It's rumored that Jobriath died 10 years ago, it's also rumored that he may still be alive.
		In 1973, a singer suddenly made an appearance on the music scene, came into vogue with the help of hype, and tragically disappeared while no one had realized it.
	www.morrissey-solo.com /people/jobriath.htm (100 words)

	Jobriath - New Music - Peoplesound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1973 you couldn't open a music magazine without seeing Jobriath, who, it was claimed, came from outerspace and would be the year's hottest new star.
		After a second commercially disappointing album, Jobriath, was dropped by Elektra.
		Among his longtime fans is Morrissey who compiled Lonely Planet Boy from Jobriath's two albums as well as penning its liner notes and is releasing it on his Attack imprint.
	www.peoplesound.com /artist/jobriath (237 words)

	Rhino Handmade (Phase One: 1999 - 2001) Tribute & Discography
		Following his last provocative effort, Jobriath's new LP on Elektra ought to be another conversation piece worthy of garnering a good deal of attention.
		The highly stylized Jobriath vocals are again the soul and substance of this package and tunes such as "Heartbeat," "Ecubyan," "Good Time," and "Ooh La La" are sure to cause many a head to turn.
		Jobriath has a big push going for him as an exemplar of gay rock.
	keepkey.yochanan.net /hand.html (1150 words)

	November 2003
		Jobriath landed a record contract on a major label and was poised to become the first openly gay rock star, but it just didn't happen...
		He released two albums, in 1973 and 1974, and while critically successful, that was the limit of his career.
		However, his influence resurfaced in 2001 when in the movie "Velvet Goldmine," the album by that story's rock singer was modeled after Jobriath's first album.
	www.queermusicheritage.com /nov2003.html (572 words)

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