Jobriath

Morrissey shares Jobriath cover featuring Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste

Morrissey’s new all-covers album, California Sun, is due out May 10 and he’s just shared his take on “Morning Starship” by ’70s cult glam artist Jobriath which features backing vocals by Ed Droste…

Morrissey announces covers LP 'California Son'

’California Son’ features covers of songs by Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, Carly Simon, Jobriath, Buffy Sainte Marie, Phil Ochs, Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, and more.

documentary 'Jobriath A.D.' screening in NYC and on-demand

Known as the first openly gay rock star, Jobriath‘s reign was brief, lasting less than two years and two albums. Done in by a over-hyped publicity machine, shunned by the gay community, and dismissed by most critics as all flash, no substance, Jobriath was excommunicated from the music business and retreated to the Chelsea Hotel, where he died forgotten in 1983 at the age of 37, one of the earliest casualties of AIDS…