There was an interview done with Campbell in 1979 from the Hotel. It was supposedly the first one since his Jobriath days. The lyrics here don't track the interview very much at all. Here's the zip file of the page scans of the interview. See if you can come up with any parallels:
championstudios.net/jobriath/attitude.zip
Dying in 1983, he could not have know he had AIDS but might have been aware of some venereal-based disease. VD is often described as a "fire". In the interview, he describes getting a lot of mail from the Health Board. And fire is also the fire of passion. His sexual partners only bloom on the fire of that passion and therefore are limited emotionally. Despite the "fire problem" he says he is winning because he lived the kind of life he wanted to live. Campbell was raised an Army brat and moved constantly and therefore was probably quite distant from his father. The real interview has Campbell acting schizo. He speaks of Jobriath in the third person and at one point says Jobriath died. And therefore the part of the lyrics where he talks to his "old self" is consistent.
Don't miss this very clear Youtube video from his rooftop Pyramid at the Chelsea:
youtube.com/watch
There was an interview done with Campbell in 1979 from the Hotel. It was supposedly the first one since his Jobriath days. The lyrics here don't track the interview very much at all. Here's the zip file of the page scans of the interview. See if you can come up with any parallels: championstudios.net/jobriath/attitude.zip
Dying in 1983, he could not have know he had AIDS but might have been aware of some venereal-based disease. VD is often described as a "fire". In the interview, he describes getting a lot of mail from the Health Board. And fire is also the fire of passion. His sexual partners only bloom on the fire of that passion and therefore are limited emotionally. Despite the "fire problem" he says he is winning because he lived the kind of life he wanted to live. Campbell was raised an Army brat and moved constantly and therefore was probably quite distant from his father. The real interview has Campbell acting schizo. He speaks of Jobriath in the third person and at one point says Jobriath died. And therefore the part of the lyrics where he talks to his "old self" is consistent.
Don't miss this very clear Youtube video from his rooftop Pyramid at the Chelsea: youtube.com/watch