Tag: MIck Jagger

Wilde, Shaw, Jagger and the Challenge to a Dysfunctional Society

by michaelgriffith1 • May 11, 2015 • 1 Comment

Oscar Wilde’s biographer Richard Ellman tells us that “From as early as 1881 … literary London was put out of countenance by this outrageous Irishman … who declared he was a socialist and hinted he was a homosexual, while patently mocking wise saws on all subjects. He declined, in a public and ceremonious manner, to live…

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Oscar Wilde- the Mick Jagger of the Late 19th Century

by michaelgriffith1 • May 4, 2015 • 1 Comment

Oscar Wilde was undoubtedly an earlier version of Mick Jagger in his daring to confront a staid middle class with outrageous dress and demeanour. As has been noted: “The Rolling Stones were in the vanguard of the British Invasion of bands that became popular in the US in 1964–65. At first noted for their longish hair as much…