Glam rock is a style of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s and was primarily defined by the flamboyant clothing, makeup...

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...

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...

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...

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...

music genre, it originated with bands influenced by glam rock, heavy metal, punk rock and gothic rock. Visual kei was pioneered by groups such as X Japan...

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progressive rock, which extended artistic elements, and glam rock, which highlighted showmanship and visual style. In the second half of the 1970s, punk rock reacted...

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...

1970s. Other subgenres of rock, particularly glam rock, hard rock, progressive rock, art rock, blues rock, and heavy metal achieved various amounts of...

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...

Press, 2007), p. 134. "Glam Rock". Encarta. Archived from the original on 28 August 2009. Retrieved 21 December 2008. "Glam Rock Music Genre Overview"...

"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...

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...

and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy (2016), Simon Reynolds comments that Essex's music avoided straightforward 1950s revivalism, deeming "Rock On" and similar...

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...

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...

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...

progressive rock (also known as symphonic rock), art rock, glam rock, arena rock, heavy metal, operatic pop, pop rock, psychedelic rock, baroque pop...

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...

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...

one of the brightest stars on the entire glam rock firmament." Stuart Rosenberg (2009). iUniverse (ed.). Rock and Roll and the American Landscape: The...

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...

typically been classified under the genres of hard rock, heavy metal, shock rock, glam metal, and glam rock. Most of its 1970s albums, particularly the first...

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,...

and rock traditions of the early-to-mid 1960s, although some artists have occasionally drawn from later styles such as punk, new wave, glam rock, pub...

from a story by Haynes and James Lyons. It is set in Britain during the glam rock days of the early 1970s, and tells the story of fictional bisexual pop...

record labels were looking for "alternatives", as many corporate rock, hard rock, and glam metal acts from the 1980s were beginning to grow stale throughout...

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...

would subsequently record the song himself. Regarded as an anthem of glam rock, the song has received acclaim and was a commercial success. In 2021,...