Glam Slam Guide: (70s Excess)

The art-school invaders who dressed like 1950s matinee idols, sounded like the future, and made every other glam band look like they’d just rolled out of bed. One day in 1971, a ferryman with a quiff, a synth wizard in a leopard-print cape, and a sax player who looked like he’d escaped from a sci-fi B-movie walked into a studio and decided rock needed more oboe, more glamour, and a lot more danger. The Glam Slam Essentials Roxy Music (1972) – Album Release (1972)The debut tha

The Black Country boys who made glam rock stomp, shout and spell badly on purpose! Slade were formed in Wolverhampton, England, in 1966 as The N’Betweens. By 1969 they’d become Ambrose Slade, then simply Slade under the guidance of manager Chas Chandler (ex-Animals, Jimi Hendrix discoverer). From skinhead boot-boy beginnings they exploded into the ultimate 1970s glam sensation – top hats, mirrors, misspelt song titles and the loudest live shows on the planet The Classic Line-

The weirdest, wittiest, most theatrical brothers in glam – opera falsettos, Hitler moustaches, and lyrics sharper than their suits. Two Los Angeles art-school kids who looked like a silent-movie villain and his nervous accountant decided to invade Britain with synthesizers, sarcasm, and songs about girls called Moustache, Wonder Girl, and This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us. The Glam Slam Essentials Kimono My House (1974) – Album Release (1974) – UK #4The breakthrough –

The leather-clad, bass-slinging Detroit firecracker who kicked down the doors for every woman who ever wanted to rock harder than the boys. She was barely five-foot-nothing, but when she strapped on that bass, slapped on the black leather jumpsuit, and snarled “Can the Can,” the entire glam world stood up and took notice. The Glam Slam Essentials 1. Suzi Quatro (1973) – Album Release (1973) The debut that announced her arrival – “48 Crash”, “Glycerine Queen”, pure leather