Jobriath was one of rock 'n’ roll’s most tragic casualties. Initially hyped as the “American David Bowie” via a massive marketing campaign spearheaded by Elektra Records and infamous Svengali Jerry ...

In every walk of life, someone has to go first and, as a result, often doesn’t see the fruits of their labor and tends to be forgotten as the world moves on. So it seemed to be for Jobriath, the first ...

Britain in the early 1970s was going through a depression: the naive dreams and optimism of the 1960s had soured and evaporated; life was filled with drudgery, strikes, power cuts and unemptied bins.

It may be something to do with his extraordinary stage moniker – somehow redolent of Goliath and Job – that Bruce Campbell aka Jobriath has maintained a tenuous foothold in pop culture, somehow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jobriath, aka Bruce Wayne Campbell, was the first openly gay rock star and the self-declared “true fairy of rock ‘n’ roll.” He was ...

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Jobriath should have been one of the biggest starts of ’70s glam rock: He landed a stunning $500,000 record deal. He shared a manager with Carly Simon. David Geffen had big plans to make him the ...

First, they mocked him. Then, they forgot him. Yet, history will record that, nearly four decades ago, a man named Jobriath became the first openly gay rocker ever signed to a major label. Let’s just ...

His space alien persona and theatrical rock music drew comparisons to David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust character. But American audiences seemed unwilling to accept his sexuality. By David Chiu This ...

And although the promised grandeur never materialized, Jobriath did record two vastly underrated albums for Elektra Records -- Jobriath and Creatures of the Street -- both of which will be re-released ...

Those are terms used by friends and musical colleagues to describe aspiring rock star Jobriath Salisbury when he was on the way up. Then later came this: “borderline schizophrenic.” And this: ...