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Bobbie Dazzle
Classic Rock
|November 2024
Meet the West Midlands singer bringing back upbeat music, fun and fashion of the 70s.
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Siân Greenaway is flying the flag for the genre that hipness forgot: 70s glam rock. "It's joyous music," she says enthusiastically and without irony. "It's not serious, it's uplifting, it makes you feel good.
I want to reinvent glam rock for a modern-day audience." This hugely admirable mission is embodied in the form of Bobbie Dazzle, the singer's catsuit-wearing, bell-bottom-swinging, Glitter-beat-stomping alter ego. Bobbie Dazzle's glamtastic debut album, Fandabidozi (yes, it's a Krankies reference), is an exhilarating homage to the glory days of Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Bowie, Bolan and fellow West Midlanders Slade and Wizzard. Bostin' anthems Back To The City, Merry Go Round and April Showers are powered by Greenaway's full-throated voice, epic choruses and her occasional burst of flute.
This story is from the November 2024 edition of Classic Rock.
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