Line #21 Main/GlamRock


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2	Primary Stylistic Influences:
3	+ RockAndRoll, Music/{{Bubblegum}}, ProgressiveRock, HardRock, {{Pop}}, PsychedelicRock, ScienceFiction
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6	Secondary Stylistic Influences:
7	+ Occasional BluesRock, ProtoPunk, and even ElectronicMusic influences
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10	->'''Narrator''': Getting the new tribes onside was more than a challenge. Part-time musician Greg Macainsh decided to make a student film about the toughtest crowd of all: Melbourne's Sharpies. He seemed to learn nothing from the exercise, and took his new glam band right into the lions' den.\
11	'''Greg Macainsh''': We were all wearing makeup, and I was wearing some hideous lurex sort of jumpsuit, and we thought we were definitely not gonna get out of there alive, surrounded by Sharpies, but we sort of won them over.\
12	'''Narrator:''' This was a weird new Australia: Plenty of glitter, an ex-surfie singer named Shirley, a crossdressing, cranky guitarist, and a weird name: Skyhooks. But it was their attitude that had the biggest impact: They took nothing seriously, including themselves."
13	-->-- ''Long Way to the Top: Stories of Australian Rock & Roll''
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15	Glam rock is a subgenre of RockAndRoll that developed mainly in Britain during TheSeventies. As far as the music itself went, glam bands was the mainstream alternative to the nascent ProgressiveRock and HeavyMetal genres, with songs that evoked the kind of [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth good old fashioned rock 'n' roll]] of TheFifties and TheSixties, which won a lot of glam bands the same kind of huge teenage audiences that had screamed at the Music/TheBeatles and Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}} in the last decade.
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17	What really identifies glam rock and set it apart was its focus on image. This was the age of outlandish costumes and theatrical on-stage antics, often highly sexualised. Just as the music often seemed like it was trying to evoke rock's rebellious attitude, the fashion and energetic performances aimed to dress it up in over-the-top grandeur.
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19	As mentioned above, glam rock was primarily popular in the UK, where the genre was split into three subgenres. For the artistically-inclined listener there was the artsy stylings of Music/DavidBowie in his Ziggy Stardust persona and ''Music/{{Transformer}}''-era Music/LouReed, the bombastically operatic art rock of early Music/{{Queen\|Band}} and Music/{{Sparks}}, and the jazzy synth-trickery of Music/RoxyMusic (as well as Roxy Music alum Music/BrianEno's early solo work). Beloved by teenagers were the straight-up rock and roll acts such as [[Music/MarcBolan T. Rex]], Gary Glitter, Music/MottTheHoople and Showaddywaddy. Finally, there were harder rocking groups like Slade, Music/{{Sweet}}, and the later works of Music/{{Queen\|Band}}, whose fusion of pop-melodies with loud guitars and drums would be a significant influence on HairMetal ten years later.
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21	Although its heyday has long since passed, glam rock has been highly influential in the development of popular music. HairMetal is an obvious result, but you'd also be hard pressed to find a British PunkRock, PostPunk, NewRomantic, NewWaveMusic, or GothRock band not influenced by Bowie, T.Rex, Bryan Ferry, or the New York Dolls, while the simple style and image conscious approach have been a major influence on {{Britpop}} and a lot of contemporary [[AlternativeRock indie rock]].
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23	Often associated with HairMetal.
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25	!!Creators
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27	[[index]]
28	* Music/BeBopDeluxe
29	* Music/DavidBowie
30	** 1971 - ''Music/HunkyDory''
31	** 1972 - ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars''
32	** 1973 - ''Music/AladdinSane''
33	** 1973 - ''Music/PinUps''
34	** 1974 - ''Music/DiamondDogs''
35	** 1976 - ''Music/{{Changesonebowie}}'' (GreatestHitsAlbum, over half of which consists of Bowie's glam-era hits)
36	* Music/AliceCooper
37	** 1971 - ''Music/LoveItToDeath''
38	** 1978 - ''Music/FromTheInside''
39	* Music/DangerDanger
40	* [[Music/LenaHall The Deafening]]
41	* Music/FoxyShazam (a rare more modern example, also some post-hardcore elements)
42	* Music/GaryGlitter
43	** The Glitter Band
44	* Hanoi Rocks (blurs the line between glam rock and HairMetal, but they were ultimately more rooted in the former genre)
45	* Music/HollywoodBrats (basically the British New York Dolls)
46	* Music/BillyIdol
47	* Music/EltonJohn (something of an outlier, due to being more of a singer/songwriter than most)
48	** 1972 - ''Music/HonkyChateau''
49	** 1973 - ''Music/DontShootMeImOnlyThePianoPlayer''
50	** 1973 - ''Music/GoodbyeYellowBrickRoad''
51	** 1974 - ''Music/{{Caribou}}''
52	** 1975 - ''Music/CaptainFantasticAndTheBrownDirtCowboy''
53	** 1983 - ''Music/TooLowForZero''
54	** 1985 - ''Music/IceOnFire''
55	** 1987 - ''Music/LiveInAustraliaWithTheMelbourneSymphonyOrchestra''
56	** 1988 - ''Music/RegStrikesBack''
57	** 1989 - ''Music/SleepingWithThePast''
58	* Music/{{Japan}}
59	* Music/{{Jobriath}}
60	* Music/{{Kenny}}
61	* Music/{{KISS}}
62	** 1974 - ''Music/{{KISS\|Album}}''
63	** 1974 - ''Music/HotterThanHell''
64	** 1975 - ''Music/DressedToKill''
65	** 1976 - ''Music/{{Destroyer\|Album}}''
66	** 1976 - ''Music/RockAndRollOver''
67	** 1977 - ''Music/LoveGun''
68	** 1977 - ''[[Music/KISSAliveII Alive II]]''
69	** 1978 - Music/KISSSoloAlbums
70	** 1979 - ''Music/{{Dynasty\|Album}}''
71	** 1980 - ''Music/{{Unmasked}}''
72	** 1981 - ''Music/MusicFromTheElder''
73	** 1982 - ''Music/CreaturesOfTheNight''
74	** 1983 - ''Music/LickItUp''
75	** 1984 - ''Music/{{Animalize}}''
76	** 1985 - ''Music/{{Asylum\|KissAlbum}}''
77	** 1987 - ''Music/CrazyNights''
78	** 1989 - ''Music/HotInTheShade''
79	** 1992 - ''Music/{{Revenge\|KISSAlbum}}''
80	** 1997 - ''Music/CarnivalOfSoulsTheFinalSessions''
81	** 1998 - ''Music/PsychoCircus''
82	** 2009 - ''Music/SonicBoom''
83	** 2012 - ''Music/{{Monster\|KISSAlbum}}''
84	* Music/LoveHate
85	* Music/MottTheHoople
86	* Music/{{Mud}}
87	* Music/NewYorkDolls (also protopunk)
88	* Palaye Royale (another modern example, with some pop punk elements)
89	* Music/SuziQuatro
90	* Music/{{Queen\|Band}} (probably one of the most persistent stalwarts of the movement, continuing and modernizing it even after its heyday had long since passed by updating it to fit changing trends in popular music)
91	** 1973 - ''Music/{{Queen\|1973}}''
92	** 1974 - ''Music/QueenII''
93	** 1974 - ''Music/SheerHeartAttack''
94	** 1975 - ''Music/{{A Night at the Opera\|1975}}''
95	** 1976 - ''Music/{{A Day at the Races\|Album}}''
96	** 1977 - ''Music/NewsOfTheWorldQueen''
97	** 1978 - ''Music/{{Jazz\|1978}}''
98	** 1980 - ''Music/TheGameQueen''
99	** 1980 - ''Film/{{Flash Gordon\|1980}}''
100	** 1982 - ''Music/HotSpace''
101	** 1984 - ''Music/TheWorks''
102	** 1986 - ''Music/{{A Kind of Magic\|1986}}''
103	** 1989 - ''Music/TheMiracle''
104	** 1991 - ''Music/{{Innuendo}}''
105	** 1995 - ''Music/MadeInHeaven''
106	* Music/LouReed (adopted this style for a time in the '70s)
107	** 1972 - ''Music/{{Transformer}}''
108	* Music/RoxyMusic
109	** 1972 - ''Music/RoxyMusicAlbum''
110	** 1973 - ''Music/ForYourPleasure''
111	** 1974 - ''Music/CountryLife''
112	** 1975 - ''Music/Siren1975''
113	** 1982 - ''Music/{{Avalon\|RoxyMusic}}''
114	* Music/{{SHAZNA}}
115	* Music/{{Showaddywaddy}}
116	* Music/{{Slade}}
117	* Music/{{Sparks}}
118	** 1974 - ''Music/KimonoMyHouse''
119	* Music/{{Sweet}}
120	* Music/{{Tesla}}
121	* [[Music/MarcBolan T. Rex]]
122	** 1971 - ''Music/ElectricWarrior''
123	* [[Music/RoyWood Wizzard]]
124	[[/index]]
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126	!!Glam Rock Revivalists:
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128	[[index]]
129	* Music/TheDarkness
130	* Music/{{Denim}}
131	* Music/ManicStreetPreachers
132	* Music/{{Spacehog}}
133	* Music/{{Suede}}
134	[[/index]]
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137	!!Tropes
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139	* AgentPeacock: With the Camp of unprecedented degrees, Glam Rock was also known for being the precursor to PunkRock.
140	* {{Bishonen}}: Bloody everywhere, young Bowie and Bolan being particularly notable examples.
141	* BishieSparkle: Achieved on-stage through copious amounts of glitter.
142	* BritishRockstar: This genre was mainly popular in Britain.
143	* CampStraight: Many of the performers, though the genre had its share of LGBT stars.
144	* {{Christmas Songs}}: For some inexplicable reason there was a bit of a craze for glam rock Christmas songs. This resulted in Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody" and Mud's "Lonely This Christmas", both of which were Christmas number-one singles (in 1973 and 1974, respectively) in the 1970s, and Wizzard's "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" which was kept off the number one spot by the former. All three songs are still played ''a lot'' by British radio stations during December; Noddy Holder has referred to "Merry Xmas Everybody" as his pension scheme due to the royalties it continues to generate for him and co-writer (and fellow-bandmate) Jim Lea.
145	* CoverVersion: Bowie's album ''Pin Ups'' was nothing but [[CoverAlbum glammed up covers]] of UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion tunes. Almost every hit single released by Showaddywaddy was a cover of an old rock and roll number.
146	* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Basically the defining characteristic of stage costumes for this genre.
147	* FauxYay: While glam rock had its share of LGBT+ stars, a good number of performances revolved around miming over-the-top displays of sexuality between male performers who weren't interested in one another, most famously with a photo of Mick Ronson pretending to give David Bowie's ''guitar'' a blowjob on-stage.
148	* {{Guyliner}}: Most of the performers wore makeup.
149	* HoYay: And lots of it.
150	* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: A hallmark of the genre, with many artists priding themselves on flashy and elaborate outfits that complimented the flamboyancy of their music.
151	* IntercourseWithYou: "Get It On" by T. Rex is this to the ''N''th degree.
152	* OccidentalOtaku: A lot of glam acts were influenced by kabuki theater.
153	* RealMenWearPink: A major element of glam rock's image among the genre's harder-soundings artists was a juxtaposition between flamboyantly effeminate imagery and a flamboyantly masculine sound.
154	* RockstarSong: "Ziggy Stardust" and "Lady Stardust" by David Bowie are both this, as are a lot of Mott the Hoople songs.
155	* StageName:
156	** David Bowie is a stage name (his birth name was David Robert Jones), but he then took the stage name "Ziggy Stardust" on top of that, Marc Bolan was a stage name, Jobriath... you get the point.
157	** Freddie Mercury is an interesting aversion, as while it ''sounds'' like a stage name, he actually legally changed his name to that shortly after forming Queen.
158	* TeenIdol: Most of the big names were hugely popular with teens. Much like [[Music/TheBeatles Beatlemania]] in the previous decade, music historians have started to refer to T. Rex's peak period as "T. Rexstasy", which became a popular enough term to be used as the name of a tribute band.
159	* XTremeKoolLetterz: All of Slade's song titles ("Cum On Feel The Noize", "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" and so on). An old joke was that they'd wanted to call themselves either "Slide" or "Slayed", but they didn't know how to spell it.

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