John Lennon once described glam rock simply as rock and roll with lipstick on. A succinct summation, to be sure, but Lennon was onto something. While glam has often been maligned for emphasizing ...

Twenty-five years ago today, Todd Haynes’ impressionistic glam-rock fantasy Velvet Goldmine hit movie theaters, offering audiences a glimpse of a short-lived era of rock defined by artists like ...

But now Gary Glitter has been written out of the definitive history of glam rock in favour of Noël Coward. Once derided as a teeny-bopper fad, the glam era is today rehabilitated with the release ...

Rock ‘n’ roll had ... Face it: Punk is essentially post-apocalyptic glam. It’s what happens when Ziggy Stardust awakens after the previous night’s champagne-and-cocaine bender, his ...

Cocky and camp, T. Rex’s “Get It On” was glam rock’s first global hit in 1971. That year, the group’s singer-guitarist and songwriter Marc Bolan performed the song on BBC TV’s “Top ...

Glam rock hit the United Kingdom in the 1970s as a new, more flamboyant version of the rock ‘n’ roll music teens and young adults loved. Often characterized by the use of over-the-top stage ...

Simon Reynolds' new book, Shock and Awe, details the history of glam rock, a musical genre and style stemming from the early '70s and marked by an outlandish, eye-catching aesthetic. From pioneers ...