rockstars in the nuddy (slight return)

Sounds again, of course - what was it with their compulsion to show hard rockers with their kit off? True, they went equally for salacious innuendos and cheesecake pictures of New Wave babes like Gaye Advert and Debby HarryPerhaps it's just equal-opportunity earthinessReaders responded in similar ways too - there was a whole running thing of letters drooling over Peter PerrettPerhaps more honest than say, NME, about the element of concupiscence at work in rock fandomThat dainty, modesty-covering frond reminds me of the Harry G. Theaker-illustrated version of The Water-Babies, which my granny had a copy of Oddly the original illustrations by J. Noel Paton, despite being done at the height of Victorianism, are less coyOr was it this Edwardian edition my granny had?Previous installment of Halford-in-the-rawPrevious rockstar nuddy and New Wave nuddy