Mask Up
Simon Reynolds on pop and rock history’s obsession with disguise.
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Simon Reynolds is the author of 'Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century' and 'Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984.' 
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