"Whatever came out of the early seventies music that had any longevity to it generally had a sense of humour underlying it. The Sweet were everything we loathed; they dressed themselves up as early seventies, but there was no sense of humour there… there was a real sense of irony about what we were doing… I remember saying at the time that rock must prostitute itself, and I’ll stand by that. If you’re going to work in a whorehouse, you’d better be the best whore in it." - David Bowie (via androgynazi)