Well you mentioned them! In an interview Wedren said of The Ballad of Maxwell Demon: "I sat down with 'All The Young Dudes', he explains, It's that sort of achy-breaky, glammy thing, in four-piece mode, and sexy. And then you put space aliens in it."

You characterize me as some who has an ax to grind simply because I'm making a fact
based argument. Years long? Since 1973. Multiple venues? Wikipedia's VG entry was a disaster for a long time, it kind of is still. Then there's my ten year old live journal vardathemessage that Todd cites in the commentary for the…

Every time someone says Curt Wild the film cuts to a close up of Arthur.

Bowie also said there wasn't enough shopping in it. Then again there wasn't enough shopping in Basquiat.

David Bowie who was actually an idiom working in America and Canada.

Sandy Powell said in at a VG screening Q&A that she won for the wrong film. This year she's again double nominated for Haynes' Carol and Cinderella.

There was no need "to turn Slade's queerness up beyond Bowie's." Bowie was plenty queer and he could borrow from much better references if he needed. The film is about bisexuality, which to this day is threatening to both hetero and homo social order. The fluidity of identity and the idea that you didn't have to limit…

I'm thrilled that Velvet Goldmine is getting renewed attention. Bowie and some others didn't understand that it was about the Glam rock fans rather than the singers. My only objection to this (and the Scott Tobias piece) is the idea that Jobriath had any influence on VG. Jobriath and his also-ran gay alien act arrived…