Queer Noises: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth Century Music

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Summary: Not worth the money
Review: Gill's serves up a tired helping of warmed-over tidbits about many figures in American jazz and pop music prior to the late 60s. All of them have been printed elsewhere, and some of the major gay figures he misses completely. British classical music gets a lick and a promise, as it were, until Gill gets to the subject that Gill likes best: GILL, who Gill knows in the Brit rock scene, who Gill thinks is a self-hating gay shite, Gill's greatest almost-brushes with the rich and famous, etc., etc.......yawn. If you are the other member of the John Gill fan club, you'll love this book. If not, skip it. It's a book for easily impressed gay Gen-Xers.

Rating:
Summary: get a life
Review: Hi, author here. This attack on me has been sitting on the web for five years and I'm bored with it. The author of the attack is either a member of the Pet Shop Boys or one of their friends. He - and it's definitely a he - is also a liar. And inaccurate. If he thinks there are 'major' gay figures I left out of QN then maybe he should name them. Yes, the book was personal, because that's what the publishers asked me for. If I left anyone out it was because I didn't think they were interesting. And if he can name another book that covered the material I covered and before I did so, I'll eat a copy of QN in public.
And as for the reader coming from 'Funchal, Madeira', if a copy of QN ever reached Funchal and made it into a bookshop, then I'm Ida Lupino... J.