Who was first in glam rock?*

ROXY MUSIC was the best...........Imo

 

Oh ya..................ROXY MUSIC

 

Has Screamin' Jay Hawkins been mentioned? Always thought he was very flamboyant (understatement of the year contender!)

 

Is Gladys pronouncing it correctly? I always figured it rhymed with "Goliath".

 

Sha Na Na in 1969.

 

1964, just sayin'...

 

Little Richard!

 

Alice Cooper, surely?

 

On which record was this song originally published? The youtube poster credits the 1969 album "Arthur (or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)", but it is not in the original tracklist, maybe it's a bonus track of a later re-issue, but where is it taken from?

 

B-side of "Plastic Man" (1969)

Plastic Man (song) - Wikipedia

 

Off Wikipedia:

"Often cited as the moment of [Glam Rocks] inception is his [Marc Bolans] appearance on the BBC music show Top of the Pops in March 1971 wearing glitter and satins, to perform what would be his second UK Top 10 hit (and first UK Number 1 hit), "Hot Love". The Independent states that Bolan's appearance on Top of the Pops “permitted a generation of teeny-boppers to begin playing with the idea of androgyny”. T. Rex's 1971 album Electric Warrior received critical acclaim as a pioneering glam rock album."

So I go with Marc Bolan, followed closely by Bowie and Ziggy Stardust in 1972

 

Their glam phase was pretty much over by Stranded when Eno left...but they remained one of the best UK rock acts
of all time right up to (and including) Avalon. I still listen to Roxy Music a lot more than Bowie these days.
Their dance grooves sound more natural and their taste was pretty much impeccable.

 

Most definitely. And well before the term came to be used. Even to describe them.

 

BTW I've been listening to the whole album and it is actually a pretty glam rock album by the Kinks, or at least proto-glam, and even more is Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One.

 

Buddy Holly doing one of his famous impressions of Marc Bolan. Oh wait...

 

It's said that Bolan's Top of the Pops performance of 'Hot Love' in March 1971 kickstarted the movement, although I reckon the glam sound was already there on 'Ride A White Swan'.

Bowie and Roxy were still about a year away from glamming it up.

 

Funny thing, I don't remember Bowie at all from the Glam years. I have fond memories of all the Glam bands from '71 onward, but don't remember Bowie until about '74.

 

"Ride A White Swan" was the natural bridge between Carl Perkins and 'Beltane' rock.
"Hot Love" made the Elvis/rockabilly roots of glam rock manifest on the U.K. charts.

 

I despise "Fat Cat" marketing ploy titles...

Folk-Rock, Southern-Rock, Glam-Rock etc ugh...like Gregg Allman wisely stated "Its all Rock Rock, period."

 

the ROLLING STONES

ever see the video for "Jumpin' Jack Flash?"

those boys were glam...….1968.

 

A Texican, "The Legendary Stardust Cowboy"

 

Every once in a while a stumble upon an old song that reminds me of this thread.
This one's from 1969:

 

Little Peter Frampton