• Glam rock is a style of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s and was performed by male musicians who wore flamboyant and...
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  • heavily from the fashion and image of 1970s glam rock. Early glam metal evolved directly from the glam rock movement of the 1970s, as visual elements taken...
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  • Look up GLAM or glam in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Glam is a shortened form of the word glamour. Glam or GLAM may also refer to: Glam (film), a...
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  • This is a list of notable musical acts who pertain to the glam rock genre of music. ABBA Angel Arrows Bay City Rollers Blackfoot Sue Marc Bolan David...
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  • metal Folk metal Folk punk Folk rock Funk metal Funk rock Garage punk Garage rock Geek rock Glam metal Glam punk Glam rock Goregrind Gothabilly Gothic country...
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  • progressive rock with extended artistic elements, glam rock, highlighting showmanship and visual style. In the second half of the 1970s, punk rock reacted...
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  • journalists at some stage in their career. Glam metal is a subgenre of heavy metal and is influenced by 1970s glam rock. Glam metal groups wear "flashy clothing...
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  • Glam punk is a music genre that began in the early to mid-1970s and incorporates elements of proto-punk and glam rock. The genre was pioneered by the...
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    bands can be of any music genre, it is generally associated with glam rock, punk rock, and heavy metal. Visual kei was pioneered by groups such as X Japan...
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    1970s. Other subgenres of rock, particularly glam rock, hard rock, progressive rock, art rock, blues rock, and heavy metal achieved various amounts of...
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  • "Rock and Roll" is the debut single by English glam rock singer Gary Glitter that was released in 1972, from his debut studio album Glitter. Co-written...
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    Press, 2007), p. 134. "Glam Rock". Encarta. Archived from the original on 28 August 2009. Retrieved 21 December 2008. "Glam Rock Music Genre Overview"...
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  • limitations of rock music, including British folk rock and glam rock, a process that reached its apogee in the development of progressive rock and one of...
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  • bridged the gap between the poppier end of the mid-60s beat boom and glam rock". Most bubblegum acts were one hit wonders (notable exceptions included...
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  • "grittier" and "rawer" sound than most glam metal, it produced three hits, including "Sweet Child O' Mine". Some of the glam rock bands that formed in the mid-1980s...
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  • along with arm length silver lamé gloves, exemplifying both shock and glam rock sensibilities. At at least one show in 1970, Pop smeared peanut butter...
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    After a period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with the flamboyant and androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust. The...
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  • out-of-the-mainstream music that became highly influential on what was to come. Glam rock in the UK and the New York Dolls from New York have also been cited as...
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    Gary Glitter (category Glam rock musicians)
    Back Again". He became known for his energetic live performances and glam rock persona of glitter suits, make-up, and platform boots. He has sold over...
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  • Arena rock (also known as AOR, melodic rock, pomp rock, stadium rock, corporate rock or dad rock) is a style of rock music that became mainstream in the...
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  • known as a member of the band Angel between 1975 and 1980, and for his glam rock image. Meadows grew up in the Barnaby Terrace neighborhood of southeast...
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  • Underground. The style would experience its "golden age" in the 1970s among glam rock artists such as David Bowie and Roxy Music, who embraced theatricality...
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  • Royston Langdon (category British alternative rock musicians)
    English musician who is the lead singer and bassist of the English-American glam rock band Spacehog. Langdon was born on 1 May 1972 in Leeds. When he was young...
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    Barber, and Lush bassist, Phil King. Junkshop glam describes the nearly forgotten vinyl records of 1970s glam rock bands whose unsuccessful records had limited...
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  • T. Rex (band) (category English glam rock groups)
    single "Ride a White Swan", and the group soon became pioneers of the glam rock movement. From 1970 to 1973, T. Rex were extremely popular in the UK,...
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    progressive rock (also known as symphonic rock), art rock, glam rock, arena rock, heavy metal, operatic pop, pop rock, psychedelic rock, baroque pop...
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    Marc Bolan (category Glam rock musicians)
    pioneer of the glam rock movement in the early 1970s with his band T. Rex. Bolan strongly influenced artists of many genres, including glam rock, punk, post-punk...
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  • lower pitches. Although gothic rock is an offshoot of post-punk, glam rock is another forerunner genre of gothic rock. Pitchfork wrote: "Although it abandoned...
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    "Public Enemy #1". From 1990 until his death in 2019, he performed with the glam rock band Spiders & Snakes. He is not to be confused with Lizzi Grei, a Russian...
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  • album, Hope You Like It on EMI label. Trying to compete with such British glam rock outfits as Slade and Sweet (Geordie supported the former on a UK tour...
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