My favourite Luther Vandross moment was when he provided the back up vocals on David Bowie's Young Americans LP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSHY1_ux8rs

Being the male Nancy Mitford might suit him very well... 

Recommended reading is Peter York's 'Modern Times' - I think the essay is called 'How The Wedge Was Won'.

The fabled 'Jim's' partner (My step-mum) was a bit of a soul girl and used to wear head to toe Fiorucci at one point from the Kings Road shop.

http://www.fiorucci.it/

Literally all her clothes came from there at one point.

The cult of 'Jim' carries on on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/taylor.mcintyre.75  but not on here. It's been a great shop window for him though & he sends his love to FNB for giving him his break. He also sends love to all his co-opted publicists online. And so the story ends. He's had three pages on FB - The first topped 2.5K 'Friends', the second got 100 in the first day, this third one is just kept for his inner circle on FB. His mate Giz from here is on there.

Back on track -

Pubic shaving was a Soulie thing too, if the stories are to be believed. This was before 'Shaven Havens' and the current ubiquity of going pube-less. Fact or fiction ? 

... As usual with these things, the mythology is more powerful than the actuality I suspect.

Best -

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What else does a promoter do but promote ?

- The Organisation thanks you for all your Pro-Bono work. Do please keep on talking about him. God forbid that any of his scams should ever die.

The man perm was very popular sometime during 85 as I remember, I always thought it's popularity came from the Brookside characters Barry Grant and Terry Sullivan. It likely came from Kevin Keegan before them. One of my old colleagues sported one right until the mid 1990s. Awful look.

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The Sade track on the soundtrack of AB, 'Killer Blow' is ace.
As a film, I agree with Hepcat. Its not a life-changer but it is pleasant viewing really.
It would be an odd film, to say the least, if it was a direct novel-to-cinema translation.

Some interesting stuff being discussed here. I'd like to throw in two questions on things which I wondered about in my younger years.  Unfortunately, they have to do with PW / TSC.

Up till today, I don't know what to make out of this wedge PW sports in the "Our favourite shop"-phase. Was that a fashionable / cool haircut at the time? Does it relate to the casual/soulboy-thing you are discussing?  In Germany, this kind of haircut was being worn by the so-called "Poppers" at the end of the 70s / early 80s. I tend to think that he was just looking for something different and liked the look, but mabye there is some "meaning" behind it.

The second thing is a scene in the promo video for "A solid bond in your heart". At the end, PW/MT leave the empty hall and a group of younger kids enters it. For me, it came across a bit like a change of the guard thing, a la here comes the next generation. These kids were clearly no mods or whatsoever. Could they fit the "casual" scheme?