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Posted May. 10, 2008,
Happy Mother's Day (with Jobriath)
By Ann Magnuson
Finally someone has posted Jobriath's ultra-rare videos on YouTube!! (Thank you Richard Metzger for leading us to them!) I actually bought Jobriath albums when they came out (anything that smacked of Bowie was catnip to this ziggystardusted teen) and loved them! But I was in a small but special (Hello Morrissey!) minority. Somehow I missed his rare TV appearances but here they are posted below in all their openly gay glam-rock glory. (Is this but one reason Bowie became a cokey R&B revivalist?)
But it's this Mother/Son video that I believe Jobriath's brother posted about the once maligned, now deceased and legendary glam rocker from the early 70s that broke my heart. Sadly, embedding of the video is disabled by request (which is why I've posted instead the clip above from a VH1 doc that explains who Jobriath was). But you can see the Jobriath Mother/Son tribute by clicking here. This one is for all of us who no longer have our mothers (and brothers) with us.