Couldn't find any thread for Glam Rock, so decided to start one.
Glam Rock is, in my opinion, one of the best genres of music to develop after the 60s. We know the giants, David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Boy George, and Prince (although he had poppish tendencies).
What are some of the lesser known Glam rock artists? In modern times, it's experiencing a minor revival under Harry Styles, whose self-titled album has garnered some success.
With the exception of Bowie OP that isn't a list of Glam Rock stars. It was primarily a British based phenomenon from the early 70s featuring artists such as T Rex, Sweet and Gary Glitter.
Other than Bowie and Queen, I never particularly listened to the others I mentioned. I've always heard them grouped in as glam rock though, so I dunno.
With the exception of Bowie OP that isn't a list of Glam Rock stars. It was primarily a British based phenomenon from the early 70s featuring artists such as T Rex, Sweet and Gary Glitter.
Tulse's post here hit the nail directly on the head. It seems some merely take long hair (on the male head anyway) to be a key defining hallmark of glam. Is Led Zeppelin glam? Peter Frampton? I think not.
Tulse's post here hit the nail directly on the head. It seems some merely take long hair (on the male head anyway) to be a key defining hallmark of glam. Is Led Zeppelin glam? Peter Frampton? I think not.
Goldfrapp - the Black Cherry and Supernature albums. As she says herself, 'wonderful electric...' - but this is not your usual push-button digital c**p, lots of thought and invention has actually gone into this!
Are we expanding the category? Might be, but that's no bad thing - it's good that glam can be found outside the strictures of its early 1970s heyday. I always thought Giorgio Moroder's pulsing synth beats on Donna Summer's I Feel Love could actually qualify. Goldfrapp's use of synthesisers is often somewhat removed from that of Moroder, but the same principle applies, I think - those two Goldfrapp albums have just as many glam elements as they do anything else.
Yes Strange, this is all something completely different. On the other hand, it wasn't called Glam Rock in it's day, so I suppose the term could be interpreted as widely as people like.
Well, allegedly, it was, though I'm struggling to find a relevant quote. Wiki refers to a contemporary Melody Maker headline that 'Glam Rock is Dead' (1973, I think - can't quite make out the date on the picture)
In 1973 glam rock or whatever it was called (in Dutch it was known as nichtenrock = gay rock) was very much alive, so it's probably one or two years later.
Well, there's gonna be some crossover musically. 'Glam' seemed to be more a visual thing than a specifically musical thing; resulting in some strange bedfellows.
Epic Queen
Steve Harley And Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
My teen years were in the '70s, so I really did grow up with Glam Rock. Forgive me therefore if I question the inclusion of Yes, King Crimson and Black Sabbath into the genre when they really are better suited in the Prog Rock and Metal camps - indeed it can be argued that Yes and King Crimson were the creators of the Prog Rock genre along with Genesis and The Nice.
For me the real stars of Glam Rock were T-Rex, Sweet, Gary Glitter (yes, I know - but he was), Wizzard, Bowie and even Roxy Music. Others included Suzi Quatro, Cockney Rebel, Barry Blue (who remembers him?), The Glitterband (who released a few excellent singles in their own right), Slade, and to a point Queen & 10cc though both these bands had a unique musical style which contained elements of Glam, but weren't strictly of that ilk.
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