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Notes
Indeed, the emphasis of the tour on well-known songs rather than new material is stressed in press coverage. See Stuart Arnold, “Critics,” The Northern Echo, December 18, 2004; Johnny Davis, “Never Gonna Give You Up,” The Times, May 16, 2009; Diane Parkes, “Midge’s pledge to play his hits,” Birmingham Mail, January 14, 2011; Nigel Powlson, “Rick’s never gonna give up,” Derby Evening Telegraph, May 21, 2010; Jonathan Rennie, “Tony’s just an old romantic at heart,” Evening Times, April 18, 2002. For an example of a Here and Now setlist, see Mike Atkinson, “Here And Now tour, Nottingham Trent FM Arena, Friday May 9,” Troubled Diva, 10 May, 2008, http://troubled-diva.com/2008_05_04_troubled-diva_archive.html#5885785463623772144, accessed 13 August, 2012.
See “Here And Now,” http://www.here-and-now.info/hn_biography.html and http://www.here-and-now.info/hn_tours.html, accessed August 13, 2012.
For further discussion of the journalistic categories of “entertainment” and “human interest,” see Jane Taylor, “What makes a good feature? The Different Genres,” in Print Journalism: a critical introduction, ed. Richard Keeble (London/New York: Routledge, 2005), 122, 124-125.
See Marion Leonard, Gender in the Music Industry: Rock, Discourse and Girl Power (Ashgate: Aldershot/Burlington VT, 2007), 65-66.
Leonard, Gender in the Music Industry, 65.
Leonard, Gender in the Music Industry, 90.
Leonard, Gender in the Music Industry, 73.
As Margie E. Lachman comments, the age “boundaries for midlife are fuzzy with no clear demarcation […] Those between the ages 40 and 60 are typically considered to be middle-aged, but there is at least a 10-year range on either end, so that it is not uncommon for some to consider middle age to begin at 30 and end at 75.” See Margie E. Lachman, “Introduction,” in Handbook of Midlife Development, ed. Margie E. Lachman (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2001), xx, and Margie E. Lachman, “Development in Midlife,” Annual Review of Psychology 55 (2004): 310-312.
See P. David Marshall, Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture Place (Minneapolis MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), X, and Taylor, “What makes a good feature?’’125.
Stan Hawkins, The British Pop Dandy: Masculinity, Popular Music and Culture (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2009), 20.
Hawkins, The British Pop Dandy, 118.
Laurence Senelick, The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre (London/New York: Routledge, 2000), 417.
See Senelick, The Changing Room, 417 and also Luca Prono, Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Popular Culture (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2008), 39-41.
David Rolph, Reputation, Celebrity and Defamation Law (Ashgate: Aldershot/Burlington VT, 2008), 143-46.
Aidan Radnedge, “Neighbour moves on; Jason Donovan puts the 80s behind him - after trip down memory lane,” Metro, October 8, 2010.
Dawn Collinson, “The King of Rick ‘n’ roll,” Liverpool Echo, January 30, 2009.
Simon Wilson, “Interview: Rick Astley,” Nottingham Evening Post, January 23, 2009; and Simon Wilson, “Interview: Kim Wilde,” Nottingham Evening Post, May 1, 2009.
Laura Davis, “If you don’t like it then just quit,” Daily Post (Liverpool), April 3, 2009.
Johnny Davis, “Never Gonna Give You Up.”
Simon Button, “Toyah Willcox is back on the road and singing new songs but that doesn’t make her a has-been,” The Express, February 11, 2002; and Louise Rimmer, “It’s a mystery but no new song required as the Eighties turns to gold,” Scotland on Sunday, April 28, 2002.
Davis, “If you don’t like it then just quit.”
“Never gonna regret giving up fame,” Sunday Sun, February 24, 2008.
“Never gonna regret giving up fame.”
Natalie Anglesey, “Family is Rick’s priority,” Manchester Evening News, July 20, 2011.
Emma Pinch, “I still get a tingle from singing,” Daily Post (Liverpool), May 13, 2008.
Gail Henderson, “Gail Meets Jason Donovan,” The Sunday Life, November 7, 2010.
Spencer Bright, “My life hasn’t always been a disaster but when it has, it’s been spectacular!” Daily Mail, June 10, 2011.
Bright, “My life hasn’t always been a disaster”.
Bright, “My life hasn’t always been a disaster’’; see also Mike Atkinson, “Interview: Boy George,” Nottingham Evening Post, January 9, 2009.
Anuji Varma, “I’m sorry... by George,” Sunday Mercury, October 12, 2008.
Tim Fletcher, “Drugs, prison, pop - and a boy that’s finally grown up,” Burton Mail, November 12, 2010.
Michael J. Diamond, “Masculinity and its discontents: Making room for the ‘mother’ inside the male - An essential achievement for healthy male gender identity,” in Heterosexual Masculinities: Contemporary Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Gender Theory, ed. Bruce Reis and Robert Grossmark (London/New York: Routledge 2009), 44.
Andy Coleman, “George not fazed by 50th birthday,” Birmingham Mail, June 24, 2011.
Bright, “My life hasn’t always been a disaster.’’
Coleman, “George not fazed by 50th birthday.”
Bright, “My life hasn’t always been a disaster.’’
See Dan P. McAdams, “Narrating the self in adulthood,” in Aging and biography: Explorations in adult development, ed. James E. Birren et al. (New York: Springer, 1996), 131-148.; Dan P. McAdams, “The psychology of life stories,” Review of General Psychology 5 (2001): 100-22; and Dan P. McAdams, and J.L. Pals, “A new Big Five: Fundamental principles for an integrative science of personality,” American Psychologist 61 (2006): 204-17. For further discussion of McAdams’s Life-Story model, see John C. Cavanaugh and Fredda Blanchard-Fields, Adult Development and Aging (Belmont CA: Wadsworth, 2011), 338-40, and Joan T. Erber, Aging and Older Adulthood (Chichester, UK / Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 242.
Cavanaugh and Blanchard-Fields, Adult Development and Aging, 337.
Martin Kantor, Now That You’re Out: The Challenges and Joys of Living As a Gay Man (Santa Barbara CA: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2011), 110.
Katie Milestone and Anneke Meyer, Gender and Popular Culture (Cambridge UK / Malden MA: Polity, 2012), 114.
“Jason’s Happy to Revisit the 80s,” Coventry Evening Telegraph, June 24, 2011; see also Catherine Jones, “Jason Donovan talks The War of the Worlds and takes a look back at the 80s,” Liverpool Echo, November 19, 2010.
“Eg interview: Boy George,” Nottingham Evening Post, February 1, 2008.
Sean Michaels, “Boy George to reunite Culture Club in 2012,” The Guardian, January 29, 2011.
“Eg interview: Boy George.”
“Eg interview: Boy George.”
Diamond, “Masculinity and its discontents,’’ 44.
“Never gonna give him up,” Nottingham Evening Post, May 7, 2009.
Pinch, “I still get a tingle from singing.”
Powlson, “Rick’s never gonna give up.”
“Rick Astley writing movie musical,” Guardian Unlimited, February 2, 2009.
“Everything is still rosy in Donovan’s garden,” Solihull News, April 29, 2011.
“Eg interview: Boy George.’’
Atkinson, “Interview: Boy George.”
Powlson, “Rick’s never gonna give up.”
Henderson, “Gail Meets Jason Donovan.”
“Carole’s life is on a roll,” Sunday Mercury, October 7, 2001; Jill Foster, “CD reviews and music: heaven to hell,” Daily Mirror, July 30, 2004; “Kim Wilde keeps hangin’ on,” Derby Evening Telegraph, February 20, 2009; and Powlson, “Rick’s never gonna give up.”
Davis, “Never Gonna Give You Up.”
Pinch, “I still get a tingle from singing.’’
Davis, “If you don’t like it then just quit.”
“Showbiz: Rick pads up,” Sunday Mercury, November 18, 2007.
See Davis, “If you don’t like it then just quit;” and also Collinson, “The King of Rick ‘n’ roll,” who refers to “a typically self-effacing comment from a man [Astley] who, despite more than 20 years of fame, has never felt truly at ease in the spotlight.”
Fletcher, “Drugs, prison, pop.’’
Gavin Allen, “Return of the one and only,” South Wales Echo, April 7, 2009; Davis, “Never Gonna Give You Up.” and Aidan Smith, “Accepting the Eighties,” The Scotsman, July 18, 2011.
“She’s the real wilde child,” Nottingham Evening Post, April 2, 2009.
Milestone and Meyer, Gender and Popular Culture, 114.
Alongside the “new man as nurturer” also developed the “new man as narcissist,” John Beynon, Masculinities and Culture (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2002), 100-105, and Milestone and Meyer, Gender and Popular Culture, 116.
See Diamond, “Masculinity and its discontents…,’’ 44; and also, with reference to Jung and Erber, Aging and Older Adulthood, 237.
Cavanaugh and Blanchard-Fields, Adult Development and Aging, 329-30.
“Everything is still rosy in Donovan’s garden.”
Lorraine Kelly, “He’d Don So Well,” The Sun, October 9, 2010.
Henderson, “Gail Meets Jason Donovan.”
Pinch, “I still get a tingle from singing.”
“Eg interview: Rick Astley,” Nottingham Evening Post, April 4, 2008.
Anglesey, “Family is Rick’s priority.”
Pinch, “I still get a tingle from singing.”
Sophie Heawood, “Are we ever gonna give him up?” The Times, January 30, 2009.
Milestone and Meyer, Gender and Popular Culture, 116.
“Eg interview: Rick Astley.”
Anglesey, “Family is Rick’s priority.”
Diamond, “Masculinity and its discontents,’’ 44.
Michael S. Kimmel, Jeff Hearn, and Robert W. Connell eds, Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities (London: Sage, 2005), 3.
See Jeff Hearn et al., The social problem of men: final report: Project HPSE-CT1999-00008. Vol. 1, Luxemburg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2004, 80-82. http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/pdf/socialproblemi_en.pdf
Erber, Aging and Older Adulthood, 243-51.
Leonard, Gender in the Music Industry, 106.
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Stuart C. Aitken, “Culture and Representation,” in The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, eds Michael Flood, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Bob Pease, and Keith Pringle (London: Routledge, 2007), 120.
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