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glam rock

Pop music in a conventional rock style performed by elaborately made-up and overdressed musicians. English singers Marc Bolan (1947–1977) and David Bowie and the band Roxy Music (1970–83) pioneered glam rock in the early 1970s.



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Despite the lip service glam rock paid to style-as-substance with its silver lame space suits and sexual ambiguity, there's no denying that its icons communicated something essential; outsider adolescents worshiped classic Bowie with good reason.
Glam sham by Reighley, Kurt B. / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Though lumped into the '70s glam rock pantheon, Roxy Music's singularly weird aesthetic, and the flat, imperfect warble of dapper singer Bryan Ferry, resist easy classification.
The Thrill of It All: the story of Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music by Dayal, Geeta / Artforum International
This duo has run the gamut of glam rock, post-punk, electronica, and pop and is currently on some serious next-level, symphonic, music-hall style that is truly bizarre.
Sparks by Whiteley, Dan / Thrasher
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