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glam rock
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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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