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Oct 17, 2023 · The 30 Greatest Glam Rock Albums of All Time Featuring classics from Elton John, T. Rex, The Lemon Twigs, Suzi Quatro, Roxy Music and more. By Paste Staff | October 17, 2023 | 12:00pm
Apr 9, 2024 · Most divisive: Mott the Hoople. Over 2.1K Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of Glam Rock Bands. 1. David Bowie. 819 votes. David Bowie's transformative approach to music throughout his career solidifies him as one of the finest and most enduring artists in glam rock history.
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- 1T-Rex, Hot Love February 1971
- 2David Bowie, Queen Bitch December 1971
- 3 Alice Cooper, School's Out April 1972
- 4 Roxy Music, Virginia Plain August 1972
- 5Mott The Hoople, All The Young Dudes July 1972
- 6 Lou Reed, Vicious November 1972
- 7 David Bowie, The Jean Genie November 1972
- 8 Slade, Cum on Feel The Noize February 1973
- 9 Roxy Music, editions of You March 1973
- 10 Bonnie St Claire, Clap Your Hands and Stamp Your Feet May 1973
Marc Bolan's third huge hit in a row, No 1 for four weeks. His Top of the Pops performance showed him going truly imperial, with flying-V guitar, pink trousers, silver jacket and, prompted by his friend and colleague Chelita Secunda, glitter on his cheekbones.
"There should be some real unabashed prostitution in this business," Bowie told Cream magazine in late 1971. He did his best to make it happen with this Velvet Underground tribute, saturated in homosexuality and Manhattan sleaze. Mick Ronson's guitar slices through everything.
From Detroit by way of LA, these hard rockers had been wearing makeup and frocks since 1969, so were well-suited to the glam imperative. School's Out was a definitive entrant in the teenage rampage stakes and scored hard with the kids, hitting No 1 for three weeks in the summer holidays.
With Bryan Ferry's ultra-stylised performance and Eno's other wordly synth shrieks, this one definitely arrived from Planet Mars in the late summer of 1972. Chock-full of pop art and pop culture references, Virginia Plain was nothing less than a manifesto for a new age: "So me and you, just we two, got to search for something new."
Bowie may have provided the raw material, but Mott gave the definitive performance of this generation-defining song, with its sneering reference to the Beatles and the Stones. The musicians curled and uncurled around Ian Hunter's snarling voice: "Oh is there concrete all around/ Or is it in my head."
Another Bowie production, and another career revival. Vicious begins Reed's second solo album in exactly the way that you would wish, with the poet laureate of Manhattan spitting out the Warhol inspired lyrics – "Vicious: you hit me with a flower" – while Mick Ronson, cutting through everything, embodies the song's threat.
Bowie reached back to his 60s R&B days with this one, based on the old I'm a Man riff but updated with Ronson's buzzing guitar, burlesque rhythms, gay double entendres – his by-now patented patch. The band did a fantastic Top of the Pops performance, recently rediscovered.
This was their fourth No 1 in 18 months, which gave guitarist Dave Hill an excuse – as if he needed it – to wear ever more outrageous outfits on Top of the Pops. An anthemic chorus and a lyric that's a direct invitation "to get wild, wild, wild".
"For Your Pleasure" – with model and singer Amanda Lear on the cover – is one of the period's few coherent albums, and this 120mph rocker is one of its hidden pleasures: a camp-saturated male bonding song, featuring ooohs, sirens, and the immortal line, "boys will be boys will be boyoyoys".
With its stomping tunes and rock'n'roll roots, glam was huge on the continent – blending, as it would, into Europop – and this is a great entrant from Holland, featuring Beach-Boys' style backing vocals, terrace handclaps, and of course the ever-present Chuck Berry riffs.
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- Queen. A great group to start our list is with the legendary band Queen, who formed in London in 1971. They soon became famous for the dazzling performances of their lead singer Freddie Mercury.
- T.Rex. Up next, we have T.Rex, a band started by Marc Bolan in 1967. Their music had a folk rock sound that soon garnered a strong following. Bolan, a talented guitarist and singer, was responsible for the unique sound.
- Mott the Hoople. Another British band influential in the glam rock genre is Mott the Hoople. The group was initially known as the Doc Thomas Group, formed in 1968 by Ian Hunter with other members Mick Ralphs, Stan Tippins, and Pete Overend Watts.
- Roxy Music. Our next group, Roxy Music is no doubt one of the pioneers of glam rock. The band was born from the passion of Brian Ferry in 1970, who formed the group along with Graham Simpson, Phil Manzanera, Andy Mackay, and Paul Thompson.
- T. Rex. Marc Bolan, who for all intents and purposes was T. Rex, more or less invented glam rock in 1971. Dialing back the freak-folk of his first band John's Children and the original incarnation called Tyrannosaurus Rex, and adding some electrified Chuck Berry groove to his Tolkien tales, Marc rocked glitter and boas like few other.
- David Bowie. Like Bob Marley did with reggae, Bowie embodied the genre while simultaneously rising above it, creating his "Ziggy Stardust" persona after seeing his good friend Marc Bolan's career take off with a similar concept.
- New York Dolls. The New York Dolls changed the world in about a dozen tracks — much like their predecessors who took inspiration from them, the Sex Pistols.
- Slade. The bad boys of UK glam, Slade partied and performed like the good-time hooligans they were, mastering the art of the crowd anthem with purposefully misspelled chants like "Cum On Feel the Noize" and "Mama Weer All Crazee Now."
Oct 29, 2021 · 10 glam rock albums you should definitely own. By Classic Rock Magazine. ( Classic Rock ) published 29 October 2021. An antidote to the grim and the grey of early 70s Britain, glam rock offered glitz, glitter, glamour and a path away from the drab, denim-decked norm. These are the albums you need.
Jun 30, 2023 · 1. Queen. Formed in London in 1970 and fronted by the giant-voiced singer Freddie Mercury, Queen released hits like “We Will Rock You” and “We Are The Champions.” With a 2018 Grammy Lifetime...
