History Main / GlamRock

* Stage Names: David Bowie is a stage name, but he then took the stage name "Ziggy Stardust" on top of that, Marc Bolan was a stage name, Jobriath... you get the point.

* {{Bishie Sparkle}}: Yes, they did this in real life... with glitter and it was awesome.

* {{British Rockstar}}: This genre was manly popular in Britain.
* {{Cover Version}}: Bowie's album ''Pinups'' was nothing but [[CoverAlbum glammed up covers]] of BritishInvasion tunes. Almost every hit single released by Showaddywaddy was a cover of an old rock and roll number.
* {{Everythings Better With Sparkles}}: Basically the defining characteristic of stage costumes for this genre.
* {{Faux Yay}}: David Bowie and Mick Ronson used to be the page image for this... so yeah.
* {{Ho Yay}}: And lots of it.
* {{Impossibly Cool Clothes}}: Sequined everything.
* {{Intercourse with you}}: "Get It On" by T. Rex is this to the Nth degree.

* {{Rockstar Song}}: "Ziggy Stardust" and "Lady Stardust" by David Bowie are both this, as are a lot of Mott the Hoople songs.
* {{Stage Names}}: David Bowie is a stage name, but he then took the stage name "Ziggy Stardust" on top of that, Marc Bolan was a stage name, Jobriath... you get the point.

* 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 "Slide", but they didn't know how to spell it.

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, the over the top operatic art rock of Music/{{Queen}}, and the synth-trickery of Music/RoxyMusic. Beloved by teenagers were the straight-up rock and roll acts such as T. Rex, Gary Glitter, Music/MottTheHoople and Showaddywaddy. Finally, there were harder rocking groups like Slade and Music/{{Sweet}}, whose fusion of pop-melodies with loud guitars and drums would be a significant influence on HairMetal ten years later.

Although it's 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, NewRomantic or Music/NewWave band not influnced by Bowie or Bryan Ferry, while the simple style and image conscious approach have been a major influnce on {{Britpop}} and a lot of contemporary Indie rock.

* 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 "Slide", but they didn't know how to spell it.

* {{Faux Yay}}: David Bowie and Mick Ronson are the page image for this... so yeah.

Although it's 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 {{Punk}}, NewRomantic or Music/NewWave band not influnced by Bowie or Bryan Ferry, while the simple style and image conscious approach have been a major influnce on {{Britpop}} and a lot of contemporary Indie rock.

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, the over the top operatic art rock of Music/{{Queen}}, and the synth-trickery of Music/RoxyMusic. Beloved by teenagers were the straight-up rock and roll acts such as Music/{{T.Rex}}, Gary Glitter, Music/MottTheHoople and Showaddywaddy. Finally, there were harder rocking groups like Slade and Music/{{Sweet}}, whose fusion of pop-melodies with loud guitars and drums would be a significant influence on HairMetal ten years later.

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, the over the top operatic art rock of Music/{{Queen}}, and the synth-trickery of Music/RoxyMusic. Beloved by teenagers were the straight-up rock and roll acts such as Music/{{T.Rex}}, Gary Glitter, Music/MottTheHoople and Showaddywaddy. Finally, there were harder rocking groups like Music/{{Slade}} and Music/{{Sweet}}, whose fusion of pop-melodies with loud guitars and drums would be a significant influence on HairMetal ten years later.

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 Music/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 TheBeatles and TheRollingStones in the last decade.

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 DavidBowie in his Ziggy Stardust persona, the over the top operatic art rock of {{Queen}}, and the synth-trickery of RoxyMusic. Beloved by teenagers were the straight-up rock and roll acts such as {{T.Rex}}, Gary Glitter, Mott the Hoople and Showaddywaddy. Finally, there were harder rocking groups like {{Slade}} and Music/{{Sweet}}, whose fusion of pop-melodies with loud guitars and drums would be a significant influence on HairMetal ten years later.

Although it's 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 {{Punk}}, NewRomantic or NewWave band not influnced by Bowie or Bryan Ferry, while the simple style and image conscious approach have been a major influnce on {{Britpop}} and a lot of contemporary Indie rock.

* {{Cover Version}}: Bowie's album ''Pinups'' was nothing but glammed up covers of British Invasion tunes. Almost every hit single released by Showaddywaddy was a cover of an old rock and roll number.

* TeenIdol: Most of the big names were hugely popular with teens. Much like [[TheBeatles Beatlemania]] in the previous decade, music historians have started to refer to T. Rex's peak period as "T. Rexstasy".

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 TheBeatles and TheRollingStones in the last decade.

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 DavidBowie in his Ziggy Stardust persona, the over the top operatic art rock of {{Queen}}, and the synth-trickery of RoxyMusic. Beloved by teenagers were the straight-up rock and roll acts such as {{T.Rex}}, Gary Glitter, Mott the Hoople and Showaddywaddy. Finally, there were harder rocking groups like {{Slade}} and {{Sweet}}, whose fusion of pop-melodies with loud guitars and drums would be a significant influence on HairMetal ten years later.

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 DavidBowie in his Ziggy Stardust persona, the over the top operatic art rock of {{Queen}, and the synth-trickery of RoxyMusic. Beloved by teenagers were the straight-up rock and roll acts such as {{T.Rex}}, Gary Glitter, Mott the Hoople and Showaddywaddy. Finally, there were harder rocking groups like {{Slade}} and {{Sweet}}, whose fusion of pop-melodies with loud guitars and drums would be a significant influence on HairMetal ten years later.

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 DavidBowie in his Ziggy Stardust persona, the over the top operatic art rock of {{Queen}, and the synth-trickery of RoxyMusic. Beloved by teenagers were the straight-up rock and roll acts such as [[{{T.Rex}}]], Gary Glitter, Mott the Hoople and Showaddywaddy. Finally, there were harder rocking groups like {{Slade}} and {{Sweet}}, whose fusion of pop-melodies with loud guitars and drums would be a significant influence on HairMetal ten years later.

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 DavidBowie in his Ziggy Stardust persona and the synth-trickery of RoxyMusic. Beloved by teenagers were the straight-up rock and roll acts such as [[{{TRex}} Marc Bolan]], Gary Glitter, Mott the Hoople and Showaddywaddy. Finally, there were harder rocking groups like {{Slade}} and {{Sweet}}, whose fusion of pop-melodies with loud guitars and drums would be a significant influence on HairMetal ten years later.

* {{Christmas Songs}}: For some inexplicable reason there was a bit of a craze for glam rock Christmas songs. See Slade's "Merry Christmas Everyone" and Mud's "Lonely This Christmas", both of which were Christmas number-one singles in the 1970s.

Glam rock is a subgenre of RockAndRoll that developed mainly in Britain during TheSeventies. As far as the music itself went, glam bands presented an alternative of sorts 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.

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, [[FetishFuel 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.

As mentioned above, glam rock was primarily popular in the UK, where the genre was split between the artsier styling of DavidBowie in his Ziggy Stardust phase and RoxyMusic, straight-up rock and roll acts such as [[{{TRex}} Marc Bolan]], Gary Glitter and Mott the Hoople and harder rocking groups like {{Slade}} and {{Sweet}}. The genre never really caught on in the US, where most of the British acts became {{One Hit Wonder}}s, and protopunk groups like the NewYorkDolls were probably the main exponents of the style.

Although it's 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, for example, to find a Punk or British NewWave band not influnced by Bowie or Bryan Ferry, while the simple style and image conscious approach were a major influnced on {{Britpop}} and a lot of contemporary Indie rock.

* {{Christmas Songs}}: For some inexplicable reason there was a bit of a craze for glam rock Christmas songs. See Slade's ''Merry Christmas Everyone''

* {{Cover Version}}: Bowie's album ''Pinups'' was nothing but glammed up covers.

* {{Ho Yay}}: and lots of it.

* {{Intercourse with you}}: Get it On by ''T.Rex'' is this to the Nth degree.
* {{Rockstar Song}}: ''Ziggy Stardust'' and ''Lady Stardust'' by David Bowie are both this.

* {{Everything's Better With Sparkles}}: Basically the defining characteristic of stage costumes for this genre.

* {{British Rockstar}}: This genre was manly popular in Britain.

* {{Cover Version}}: Bowie's album ''Pinups'' was nothing but glammed up covers of these.

* {{Bishonen}: Bloody everywhere

* {{Intercourse with you}}: Get it On by ''T.Rex'' is this to the Nth degree.

As mentioned above, glam rock was primarily popular in the UK, where [[{{TRex}} Marc Bolan]], DavidBowie in his Ziggy Stardust phase and RoxyMusic ruled the roost, along with acts such as Gary Glitter and Mott the Hoople. The genre never really caught on in the US, where most of the British acts became {{One Hit Wonder}}s, and protopunk groups like the NewYorkDolls were probably the main exponents of the style.