British men in 1972 and 1973 did not dress ... As a visual culture, Turner said glam rock’s aesthetic taps into the foundational ideas of eccentric performance and transcending humanity that ...

In their day, these men were larger-than-life, incredibly talented, and always thought outside the box, much like Gaga does today. David Bowie — the king of glam rock — perhaps serves as the ...

Rather than seeing glam as a shallow but interesting phase in rock, Reynolds paints it as a vital set of contradictions existing between ideas ... Both men borrowed endlessly and unashamedly ...

Primarily, the sub-genre known as glam rock was popular in the first half of the 1970s, from 1971 to 1975. Short-lived but very influential, the musical style was born in the U.K. and has been ...