Gene Howard: Love is a Drag – For Adult Listening Only
Author: Alyn Shipton
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Modern Harmonic |
Magazine Review Date: |
August/2017 |
To release an album in 1962 with a man singing love songs to other men, given the homophobic climate of the time, meant Howard's identity was not revealed in what became a celebrated gay album. Musically, though, the album falls short of its iconic status.
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