CycleChat Investigates - Glam Rock

[Gwylan]

I think Bowie deserves a category/genre of his own

In a locked room that requires a penny to enter.

 

[sungod]

t rex, top glam

slade, best crimbo song ever, it just is

btw if you've not seen the bbc slade documentary it's well worth tracking down - it also includes shots of 'vile groping the totp audience, met him once at an aunt's birthday party in the 60s, he was such a creep, baffling that he wasn't outed back then

 

[Drago]

t rex, top glam

slade, best crimbo song ever, it just is

btw if you've not seen the bbc slade documentary it's well worth tracking down - it also includes shots of 'vile groping the totp audience, met him once at an aunt's birthday party in the 60s, he was such a creep, baffling that he wasn't outed back then

When the business with Savile came out (two weeks after Planet X had spend several grand buying some ex Savile bicycles) and old boy I know said to me...

"I knew it! Always suspected he was a bad 'un and now it's out that he's a pucking fervert [sic - thats exactly as he said it]. You mark my words, that Keith Lemon will be next!"

 

[Alex321]

I voted T-Rex, though it was a bit iof a toss up between them and Sweet for me.

But there are a lot you have missed out. Suzi Quattro (mentioned several times above), Bay City Rollers, Alice Cooper, Roxy Music, Alvin Stardust (who at the time I always thought of alongside he who can't be named). Plus a few more.

 

[Drago]

Sadly not enough room so some worthy contenders had to be left out.

And few could argue that a young Suzi Quatro in that one piece leather outfit wouldn't have be a very popular option?

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Sadly not enough room so some worthy contenders had to be left out.

And few could argue that a young Suzi Quatro in that one piece leather outfit wouldn't have be a very popular option?

Suzi I would have clased as "proper Rock" and not Glam rock

although when she was ion the telly "what class does her music fit in" was not exactly what was going through my mind

I would have classed most of the others mentioned the same
Alice Cooper were certainly not classed the same as Slade



Bay City Rollers were - basically just not mentioned in any society I was in

 

[Fergs]

I think the most glaring omission has to be The Wombles. Can’t get more glam than those immaculate white fur coats! They had a better Christmas tune than Slade or Wizzard, too…

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I think the most glaring omission has to be The Wombles. Can’t get more glam than those immaculate white fur coats! They had a better Christmas tune than Slade or Wizzard, too…

Heathen!!

Burn the WITCH!!

 

[Profpointy]

So many artists owe their popularity to the late great John Peel.

He was one of few DJs who was genuinely interested in music, rather than it merely being a vehicle for self promotion and hence irrelevant to them.

I've never understood the cult of the DJ in any case

 

[Profpointy]

The Sex Pistols were a bunch of talentless opportunists, blatantly milking the very commercial establishment they pretended to decry.

I don't think that's entirely true, or at least there is a bit more to it. Lydon at least has genuine flair as a front man, can sing in his own fashion and does have a sense of phrase and timing. And for all the seemingly empty nihilism of the Pistols it did seem a breath of energy that swept away a lot of the vacuous pop songs we were subjected to. It also paved the way for a lot of more genuinely musical and intellisgent acts like The Clash. In any case the Never Mind the Bollocks album is consistently good and extremely well recorded. I'd not deny everything they did subsequently was terrible, though Lydon is still going with his follow up band Public Image Limited who we saw and enjoyed a few weeks back

There is still some truth in what you say, and yet they brought a lot of energy and bucked up the whole music scene such that there was a "before" and "after"

 

[FrankCrank]

That old dilemma of trying to pigeon-hole music genres.
For me its the zeitgeist of the period that matters most, which blurs any hard boundaries that might be applied.
Just reading some of the suggestions here brings back lots of happy memories from that time

 

[Drago]

Slightly surprisingly to me T Rex have romped into the lead. Being a Slade mannI thought Noddy and the boys might claim the title, but it looks as if I was wrong.

Slightly disappointed Bebop Deluxe only got two votes, one of those from me. Philistines!

But 0 votes for Wizzard is a surprise. Roy Wood has clearly upset a lot of people.