In his indelible history of glam rock, critic Simon Reynolds described the genre as “alien, sensationalistic, hysterical in both senses, a place where the sublime and ridiculous merge and become ...
Rock and roll has always been image-oriented. Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and Elvis Presley set the standard that The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Jimi Hendrix worked from. Glam rock added an ...
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 costumes, ...