cat got your tongue?

image: blondes have more fun BACK
image: mine - blondes have more fun FRONT

image: early days u2

i've spent this week getting over the rite-of-passage that was u2 at wembley stadium on friday night. to commemorate the knee-trembling, desert-conjuring, air-punching, teary-eyed experience, i've posted an ancient photograph of u2 (early 80s?) that my colleague thought i might like so emailed to me. adam clayton, the megaband's spanglyfied bass player (he who made with or without you) appears to be wearing leopard-print pants. for real. ignore bono's, erm, weapon - it's during their punk-polik phase - and check out those briefs. i wonder if he had something similar on under his trousers at last week's wembley show...

...so, what did i find in a dusty pile of old records this week? only a dazzling example of late-disco-era leopard lycra (proto-lycra) thanks to wedding-dj-fave rod stewart. see his 1978 LP, the ambiguously-titled BLONDES HAVE MORE FUN...OR DO THEY? which includes tracks that also feature mysterious question marks such as 'Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?' and 'Is That the Thanks I Get?'. by 1978, the second wave of feminism had truly crashed and i bet not many people took much notice of the playful sexism played out on HOT ROD's album covers. of course the blonde he's referring to in the title is himself and not the anonymous women clinging to him on the front and back sleeves - that's why there's a brunette on the front.

his cover-girl swapping antics and riduculous ditties are unforgivable, but those catsuits, which we only ever get to see from behind are superfine. if they could ask 'do ya think i'm sexy?' i would answer 'yes'.