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Glam rock: Glitter, teenage pop & art rock
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Author: Christophe Brault
A musical movement that essentially exploded across the Channel with T. Rex, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Sparks, Queen and Elton John, glam is not limited to these stars, nor to Great Britain. It constitutes a profusion of artists and groups sometimes at the origin of a single album or a few singles, and willingly crosses borders and the Atlantic to exist through musicians as notable as the New York Dolls, Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop or Kiss. Whether they belong to the more serious musical family (art rock), more extravagant (glitter rock) or more adolescent (teenage pop), all these artists respond to three extra-musical elements that partly define the genre: pronounced makeup, outrageous clothing look and theatrical or even spectacular stage attitude. In its golden age between 1971 and 1975, weighed down for a time by disco and punk, glam was reborn in 1978 thanks to the new romantics (Visage, Ultravox), then continued over the following decades through glam metal (Van Halen), Britpop (Suede, Pulp) and the various revival movements of today, adorned by the Scissors Sisters, Gyasi or The Lemon Twigs.
ISBN: 978-2384313013