Guardian Music — Billed as the 'new Bowie', Jobriath exploded onto the glam rock scene in the 1970s – and then disappeared. Marc Almond salutes a personal heroBritain in the early 1970s was going through a depression: the naive dreams and optimism of the 1960s had ... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — The new Pretty Green Spring / Summer collection is a reinvention of iconic styles of the 1960s and 70s.Steeped in rock and roll history, the collection takes inspiration from the likes of Marc Bolan, Brian Jones and John Lennon.This seasons Black Lab... more info

Guardian Music — David Bowie's androgynous alter ego, now honoured with a blue plaque, shot an electric current through less enlightened timesIn Strange Fascination, his biography of David Bowie, critic David Buckley treats Bowie's performance of Starman on Top of th... more info

Guardian Music — If your idea of pop had been shaped by Junior Choice, Marc Bolan felt like a bolt of lightning Like Aphrodite, Hot Love appeared out of nowhere fully formed. One minute everyone was wondering what would replace Beatlemania, the next T-Rexstasy was sw... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — "Don't Go Away" is a song by English rock band Oasis from their third album, Be Here Now (1997), written by the band's lead guitarist Noel Gallagher. The song was released as a single only in Japan on February 19th 1998, peaking at number 48 on the O... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Born Marc Feld in 1947, this hour long BBC documentary traces Marc Bolan’s life and career from his London mod beginnings to his death in 1977, two weeks shy of his 30th birthday. Have a watch, then go listen to Unicorn. more info

Guardian Music — The fashion designer to Britain's pop royalty on how he dressed everyone from the Beatles to BowieStarting in 1966, Lloyd Johnson helped change the look of rock'n'roll fashion, selling his iconic designs to Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, David Bowie, Oas... more info

Guardian Music — David Bowie and the decade of misgivingsIf the 1970s are remembered fondly at all, it's through the prism of stack heels, feathers, glitter and flares, yet on BBC4 at the moment you can have your memories of the glam rock era destroyed in half an ho... more info

Guardian Music — One of the amazing things about the Queen frontman was that he successfully evaded the rock world's gaydarHard rock and "sewing" seem incongruous bedfellows. Nevertheless, if you were a headbanger in the 70s and 80s, chances are you spent more than a... more info

Guardian Music — The seeds sown in last week's blog have borne fruitGardens have long been depicted as places of innocence and imagination, of magic and possibility. That's the only traditional thing about the United States of America's unsettling, mesmerising The Ga... more info