CycleChat Investigates - Glam Rock

[Drago]

He who shall not be named!

 

[Profpointy]

He who shall not be named!

But he only did two songs (if that!)

 

[Drago]

To be fair, he was very popular indeed at the time. He has a small but very loyal fan club to this day.

 

[Beebo]

Creme Brulee deserved to be much bigger than they were. But it’s a shoot business. The cream doesn’t always rise.

View: https://youtu.be/7Bbfrn400zs?si=Jjay8-P7a8I_BK-V

 

[PeteXXX]

T Rex: only because I went to school with Steve Porter (Steve Peregrine Took)

🎸

 

[gbb]

As a 12 to 16 year old at that time, any disco you went to Mud, Sweet, The Rubettes, Smokie, the Glitter Band, definitely Showaddywaddy, Suzi Quatre, The Bay City Rollers etc were guaranteed plays.
Stuff like SAHB was not played (apart from perhaps Boston Tea Party) and i dont remember TRex being played much barring perhaps the "teenybopper' songs (seen as aimed at younger kids, we kinda scorned them as older lads. The irony is, barring those 'bopper' songs Marc Bolan turned out some beautiful music

 

[Oldhippy]

SHAB were genius!

 

[raleighnut]

Revisionist history. Everyone knows that the most popular glam rocker in the playgrounds of early 70s Britain was Gary Glitter.

Never could stand him and I'm of that generation

 

[MichaelW2]

But he only did two songs (if that!)

3 songs at No1
12 songs in Top10 singles charts
18 in the Top 40
Appearances in Top of the Pops. Too many to count inc guest presenter.

For those of us who were not fans he was a constant source of bewilderment.

 

[Drago]

As a 12 to 16 year old at that time, any disco you went to Mud, Sweet, The Rubettes, Smokie, the Glitter Band, definitely Showaddywaddy, Suzi Quatre, The Bay City Rollers etc were guaranteed plays.
Stuff like SAHB was not played (apart from perhaps Boston Tea Party) and i dont remember TRex being played much barring perhaps the "teenybopper' songs (seen as aimed at younger kids, we kinda scorned them as older lads. The irony is, barring those 'bopper' songs Marc Bolan turned out some beautiful music

Suzi Quatro stillo going. She's on tour this year. Might drag Mrs D along to see her.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

What? No Bowie?

 

[raleighnut]

As a 12 to 16 year old at that time, any disco you went to Mud, Sweet, The Rubettes, Smokie, the Glitter Band, definitely Showaddywaddy, Suzi Quatre, The Bay City Rollers etc were guaranteed plays.
Stuff like SAHB was not played (apart from perhaps Boston Tea Party) and i dont remember TRex being played much barring perhaps the "teenybopper' songs (seen as aimed at younger kids, we kinda scorned them as older lads. The irony is, barring those 'bopper' songs Marc Bolan turned out some beautiful music

Saw Alex and the boys in 75 and then later Zal when he was in Nazareth. Many years later I not only saw Ted McKenna several times but was lucky enough to not only meet and talk with him and have a drink with the great man when he played with Gerry McAvoys 'Band Of Friends' (Maz is a massive Rory Gallagher fan so we already knew Gerry) TBH I think Ted was grateful to talk abut something other than Rory, Rory,Rory all the time

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Saw Alex and the boys in 75 and then later Zal when he was in Nazareth. Many years later I not only saw Ted McKenna several times but was lucky enough to not only meet and talk with him and have a drink with the great man when he played with Gerry McAvoys 'Band Of Friends' (Maz is a massive Rory Gallagher fan so we already knew Gerry) TBH I think Ted was grateful to talk abut something other than Rory, Rory,Rory all the time

I have a mate who knew RG very well and his 'claim to fame' is he was a pall bearer at RG's funeral.

 

[Beebo]

I was a bit too young for the glam rock of the 70s.
Hair metal in the 80s was more my scene.

 

[ianrauk]

The Sweet by a huge stretch for me.
Hearing the Sweet FA album for the first time back in the day totally blew me away (my dad bought it and played it all the time). It's a bone fide heavy metal classic that I still give a regular airing.