Manson, Marilyn
Entry updated 29 July 2024. Tagged: Music, People.
US rock singer, born Bryan Hugh Warner (1969- ), probably better known for his calculatedly outrageous offstage behaviour then his music, though he has numerous devoted followers. His eponymous band's album Mechanical Animals (1998) is a Ziggy Stardust-style concept album about an Alien who is captured on Earth, and turned into a Drug-addled rock star. In tandem with the Bowie-inspired theme, the music retreats from the abrasive industrial edges of his earlier records in favour of a big 1970s style. And like Bowie, but with less enduring songs, Manson is able to have his cake and eat by it singing of the perils of stardom and selling millions of albums. [CWa]
Bryan Hugh Warner
born Canton, Ohio: 5 January 1969
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