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5 days ago · glam rock, musical movement that began in Britain in the early 1970s and celebrated the spectacle of the rock star and concert. Often dappled with glitter, male musicians took the stage in women’s makeup and clothing, adopted theatrical personas, and mounted glamorous musical productions frequently characterized by space-age futurism.
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4 days ago · Kiss (band) Kiss (often styled as KISS) was an American rock band formed in New York City in 1973 by Paul Stanley (vocals, rhythm guitar), Gene Simmons (vocals, bass guitar), Ace Frehley (lead guitar, vocals), and Peter Criss (drums, vocals). Known for their face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid-1970s with shock ...
- 1973–present
- New York City, U.S.
1 day ago · aerosmith .com. Aerosmith is an American rock band formed in Boston in 1970. [2] The group consists of Steven Tyler (vocals), Joe Perry (guitar), Tom Hamilton (bass), Joey Kramer (drums), and Brad Whitford (guitar). Their style, which is rooted in blues -based hard rock, [3] [4] has also incorporated elements of pop rock, [5] heavy metal, [3 ...
- 1970–present
1 day ago · Rock was the most popular genre of music in the U.S. and much of the Western world from the 1950s to the 2010s. Rock musicians in the mid-1960s began to advance the album ahead of the single as the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption, with the Beatles at the forefront of this development.
- 1950s and 1960s, US and UK
- Electric guitar, bass guitar, drums
11 hours ago · Tennant specialises in the sort of pithy storytelling that’d make him an excellent people’s laureate, and New London Boy, about his glam rock adolescence, is gloriously affecting.
4 days ago · rock, form of popular music that emerged in the 1950s.. It is certainly arguable that by the end of the 20th century rock was the world’s dominant form of popular music. Originating in the United States in the 1950s, it spread to other English-speaking countries and across Europe in the ’60s, and by the ’90s its impact was obvious globally (if in many different local guises
5 days ago · Global YouTube Listens over 12 months: 1.86 billion Are Queen art rock, prog, glam, psychedelic — or opera? Somehow, they dabble in each while always sounding like Queen.
