21 Glam acts in no particular order
T Rex: Poets, poseurs and some exquisite tunes
Gary Glitter: After a decade of squeezing into tin foil he thought it would be more interesting squeezing into…
The Sweet: Brickies in eyeliner but we’ll forgive them anything for Ballroom Blitz
Mud: The campest guitarist ever, a lorry driver that wanted to be Elvis – what’s not to like?
Wizzard: I wish it could be Christmas everyday. Well maybe not but what a scruffy mess of a bloke. Very West Midlands
Alvin Stardust: A regular on the Wigan Beat scene as Shane Fenton. Put a leather glove on and the rest is history
Silverhead: One of the links between glam and punk and one of those album covers that I doubt they’d get away with nowadays
David Essex: One of the nicest men in rock/pop – well for a West Ham fan anyway. More gypsy than glam but he kept the ladies happy
Mr Big: They weren’t but for a short while EMI had great hopes for them
David Bowie: Nuff said
Alice Cooper: An American man called Alice. Hints of devil-worship, heavy metal oh and a couple of killer tunes. “School’s out for ever”
Suzi Quatro: More Yanks but this time female and dressed head to toe in leather
Cockney Rebel. Two glorious albums of pure glam rock genius. Taught the likes of Richard Ashcroft how to be really arrogant!
Mott The Hoople: Half Dylan/half Stones and possibly the best live band of the first half of the seventies. The Bowie-written All the Young Dudes is THE glam anthem
Deaf School: Still the second best band to come out of Liverpool – after Shack!
Sparks: Still going, still brilliant and all with an Adolf muzzie
Doctors of Madness: Another of the bridges between glam and punk. Sure they were derivative but we forgive them.
Slade: Get Down and Get With It – all albums recently re-released and not sure why we liked them – but we did. “God Bless Noddy Holder”
Roxy Music: Before his twat of a son. Before Eno saved U2 and exactly what it is all about
Elton John: When it was hispartnerBernieTaupin, baldness and a succession of great, great songs
The Darkness: Only joking!
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