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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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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Visual kei (redirect from Japanese glam rock)
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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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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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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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...
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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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and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy (2016), Simon Reynolds comments that Essex's music avoided straightforward 1950s revivalism, deeming "Rock On" and similar...
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1970s in music (redirect from 1970s glam rock)
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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Music of the United Kingdom (1970s) (redirect from 1970s British pub rock)
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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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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Bubblegum music (redirect from Bubblegum Pop/Bubblegum Rock)
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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His next feature, Velvet Goldmine (1998), is a tribute to the 1970s glam rock era. The film received the Special Jury Prize for Best Artistic Contribution...
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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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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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Queen (band) (redirect from Queen (rock band))
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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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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David Bowie (redirect from The King of Glitter Rock)
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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Geordie (band) (redirect from Geordie (Masters of Rock))
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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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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Kiss (band) (redirect from Rock the Nation World Tour)
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...
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one of the brightest stars on the entire glam rock firmament." Stuart Rosenberg (2009). iUniverse (ed.). Rock and Roll and the American Landscape: The...
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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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Power pop (redirect from Power rock)
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...
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to the origins of glam rock, with Marc Bolan changing his psychedelic folk duo into rock band T. Rex and becoming the first glam rock star from 1970.[verification...
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Lizzie Grey (category American rock guitarists)
"Public Enemy #1". From 1990 until his death in 2019, he performed with the glam rock band Spiders & Snakes. Perry was the guitarist for the band Sister with...
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