Alastair Riddell’s Space Waltz

✍ Scribed by Ian Chapman

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 145
• Series: 33 1/3 Oceania
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Alastair Riddell’s band Space Waltz was a short-lived one-album New Zealand glam rock act who achieved a #1 hit single in October 1974 with “Out On The Street”. While this feat may have relegated the band to one-hit-wonder status in the eyes of some, to this day Riddell and Space Waltz epitomize the mid-1970s heyday of glam rock in New Zealand. But in truth their impact went far beyond this. Their generationally divisive nation-wide debut on the hugely popular MOR television talent quest Studio One/New Faces demonstrated the power of mass media exposure – they were instantly signed to a record deal with industry giant EMI - while Riddell’s gender-bending image provided a cultural crossroads that greatly impacted the wider youth culture of Aotearoa New Zealand.

✦ Table of Contents

Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: ‘Out on the Street’: Space Waltz takes New Zealand by storm
Chapter 3: What came before
Chapter 4: The album part 1: Space Waltz by Alastair Riddell EMI (NZ) 1975
Chapter 5: The album part 2
Chapter 6: What came after
Notes
Bibliography
Index