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Glam rock is a style of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s and was performed by male musicians who wore flamboyant and feminine clothing, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter, and female musicians who wore masculine clothing.
- Early 1970s, United Kingdom
Velvet Goldmine is a 1998 musical drama film written and directed by Todd Haynes from a story by Haynes and James Lyons. It is set in Britain during the glam rock days of the early 1970s, and tells the story of fictional bisexual pop star Brian Slade, who faked his own death.
- $9 million
Oct 23, 1998 · With Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale, Toni Collette. In 1984, British journalist Arthur Stuart investigates the career of 1970s glam superstar Brian Slade, who was heavily influenced in his early years by hard-living and rebellious American singer Curt Wild.
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- Drama, Music
- Todd Haynes
- 1998-10-23
Nov 6, 2023 · 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...
May 22, 2018 · It remains a kaleidoscopic cult classic, a gateway drug to a liberating polysexual wonderland of the imagination, a crash course for the ravers. In the Britpop era, few films came more wildly ambitious than Todd Haynes’ kaleidoscopic glam-rock epic Velvet Goldmine.
Nov 9, 2022. Glam rock star Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys Myers) plays a character on stage named Maxwell Demon who predicts his death on stage. Shortly after he announces his prediction, he fakes...
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- Drama
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Nov 6, 1998 · Set in the 1970s, it's the story of the life, death and resurrection of a glam-rock idol named Brian Slade, played by Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and probably inspired by David Bowie. After headlining a brief but dazzling era of glitter rock, he fakes his own death onstage.
