Pre Punk And New Wave There Was Glam

[newwavepopman]

Did anyone here get into the 70's Glam movement at all? It was pre Punk and New Wave before those terms were ever used.All 3 though had very much in common,as all 3 were about clothes and fashion,and the way your hair looked.But with Glam a band like The Sweet,would purposely put on girls makeup,just to get guys and women thinking that they were a gay band.But it was all done in show.I love the Glam movement,alot of it inspired me to really get into both Punk and New Wave.

Some of my favorite Glam artists from the 70's were not your average run of the mill Glam artists.I just happened to like the more Glam Bubblegum artists the most.Here is a list of the artists like that are 70's Glam.

Gary Glitter(to me with both his name and look he was the Godfather of Glam) Bowie,Lou Reed,Iggy Pop,and Roxy Music may make claim on that,but I am talking about 70's Glam,not about 60's Glam.

Slade
The Sweet
Bay City Rollers
Kenny
Barry Blue
Alvin Stardust
Suzi Quatro
T Rex
Wizzard
The Rubettes
Hello
Showaddywaddy
David Dundas
Queen
Crunch
LT.Pigeon
Stavely Makepeace
William Shakespeare
Brownsville Station
Roobarb
Rosetta Stone
The Glitter Band
Catapult
Chicory Tip
and a host of others.

Does anyone like any of the Glam artists from the 70's? It really doesn't have to be the ones that had more of a Bubblegum style and sound.I would just like to know which artists if any of you liked during that time period.Thanks.By the way,I haven't heard every Glam artist out there from the 70's that had a Bubblegum style and sound,so if any of you know of any others,that I am unaware of,can you please let me know who they are in a post? Thank you.

[newwavepopman]

I forgot to add two other Glam bands to this list.

Smokie and New World.

[SwampThing]

How did you freakin' forget to have the New York Dolls on your list???????? [:0]

[unguarded moment]

How about Mott The Hoople?

[newwavepopman]

That is very easy Swamp Thing.For one I never really liked The New York Dolls music,and I was absically talking about artists that I have heard personally,and listen to.The New York Dolls is not a Glam band that I listen to,or have anything by.They sounde

[Grunch]

Although he started in the late 60s', most of his famous stuff, and famous on stage antics and appearances, occurred in the 70s......Alice Cooper. He was certainly glamming it up for everyone, and had the worlds attention sometimes more for his appearance

[phillyidol]

T Rex was great! What about David Bowie? He was totally glam.

[newwavepopman]

I would just like to get my point across on the type of Glam Rock that I was refferring to from the 70's that I like to listen to.Alice Cooper was great and I am sorry that I had forgotton about them,but generally the artists that got me into the Glam mov

[newwavepopman]

Please disregard that last link I typed in,as it is not the best Glam website to get a good idea from.Go here instead,and this website is more Glam than that other one for sure.At least most of the artists on this website will give you a very good indicat

[pilon]

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For me glam rock is totally proto Punk and proto new wawe


For me i'ts beacause many Punks from the years 76 77 are in facts ex glam kids when they are young kids in the years 73 to 75

Many new wawers and goth kids of the 80's to

[newwavepopman]

Thanks for mentioning Gary Glitter,Pilon because I was about to add his songwriter and manager, to add to this list of Glams as one of the better ones, but I forgot to add him in.The late Mike Leander I would also like to add to this list as well.

For

[KYYX4ever]

you might be aware that Japan, when they first came out, were emulating the Glam sound. their first album, "Adolescent Sex" was completely different than their later sound, epitomized by "Quiet Life". on their first album, check out the big hair, the lea

[Ollie Stench]

I love Glam. The first record I ever bought was the single of Saturday Night by the Bay City Rollers.

Last year I co-ordinated a weeklong Glam festival on 2 different radio stations in Mpls/St Paul. For at least 2 hours a day there was Glam on the ra

[oneno]

At Rock Island High School in 1975 when I was a sophomore they had murals of album covers painted on our third floor walls. 1, was slade from the first album and another was King Crimson (In the court of...).Always thought that was cool since I like them

[tory]

Newwavepopman,

I bet you would like the film "Velvet Goldmine", Tod Haynes' fun take on the glam scene.

The movie was supposedly based on the career of David Bowie, but Bowie wouldn't let Haynes use Bowie music. So Haynes used a lot of Steve Harley