Glam Rock

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Glam rock, commonly shortened to glam, is a rock genre and aesthetic movement ? which emerged in the early 1970s ? in the wake of psychedelia ?. Though most readily identifiable through the flamboyant, sometimes androgynous appearance of its performers, the term came to connote a broad but coherent genre unified by a distinctive glam vocal style. Musically, the genre ranges from acoustic folk rock ? to piano art rock ? to heavy riff rock ? to bubblegum ? power pop, but always incorporates an element of 1960s pop rock and often throws back to 1950s ? rock & roll.

Glam rock was quickly a cultural phenomenon in the UK ?, with influential early acts including T. Rex ?, David Bowie ?, Mott the Hoople ?, and Americans like Lou Reed ? and Todd Rundgren ?. These came alongside more straightforward rock & roll-oriented acts like Slade ?, Gary Glitter ?, and Sweet ?, building on the harder-edged T. Rex material to develop glitter rock, or glitter, often verging on a heavily riff-centred form of power pop, which saw popularity through the first half of the decade and served as the basis for glam punk ? and glam metal ?.

[glam piano, art rock, glam punk, glam metal, visual kei, neo-glam]