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unusual facts about glam rock



Boogiest Band In Town

"Boogiest Band in Town" was the debut single by Scottish Glam rock band Slik.

Chatterbox Records

Chatterbox was also courting foreign acts, one of the first to sign to the label being latter-day glam rock act Toilet Böys.

I Love to Boogie

"I Love to Boogie" is a 1976 single by the British Glam Rock band T. Rex. The track is taken from the 1977 album 'Dandy in the Underworld' whilst its B-side, "Baby Boomerang", is taken from the group's third album 'The Slider'.

Jamie Shovlin

In 2006 Shovlin created another exhibition based on the memorabilia of a non-existent German glam rock band called Lustfaust.

Jeff Allen

He is not to be confused, although in many listings often is, with the similarly named, former drummer with the British glam rock outfit, Hello, whose brother is Ultravox's Chris Cross.

Mikey Jukebox

Of the song, James remarked, “I consider myself by all means a glam rock-er at heart (T.Rex, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Sweet, Kiss, New York Dolls, Transformer, Mott the Hoople), and the song really lent itself to it in ways. In the end I was trying for an epic “Station to Station” thing production wise".

Ney Matogrosso

In 1971, he moved to São Paulo, adopting the artistic name Ney Matogrosso, and joined the glam rock group Secos & Molhados, which in less than 18 months became a phenomenon, selling 1 million records.

Peter Brame

This received mixed reviews, being variously described as "like the Black Crowes jamming with a glam rock band", "recalls early Primal Scream and Smashing Pumpkins" and "over-produced to a point where Pete Waterman would probably blanche".

Sally Cato

Sally Cato is the lead singer of the 1980s glam rock/metal band Smashed Gladys and former singer of Toronto punk-era band, The Concords.

Slades Greats

Slades Greats is a compilation album by the British glam rock group Slade.

We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful

It was taken from the then-unreleased Your Arsenal album and was the first Morrissey single to be written by Alain Whyte and produced by glam rock legend Mick Ronson.

You Belong in Rock n' Roll

The band’s sound was somewhat more refined than on their debut album, influenced by Marc Bolan and Elvis Presley, and its use of a music-as-sex metaphor was a Bowie theme used on several tracks stretching right back to his glam days.

You're the One for Me, Fatty

It was taken from the then-unreleased Your Arsenal album and was the second Morrissey single to be written by Alain Whyte and produced by glam rock legend Mick Ronson.

Your Arsenal

It also contains an influence of glam rock, because of the involvement of ex-Bowie guitarist Mick Ronson, and songs like "Certain People I Know", "Glamorous Glue", and "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday", which are respectively influenced by T. Rex, and David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust-period songs like "The Jean Genie", and the last by "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide".

Zip Gun Boogie

"Zip Gun Boogie" is a 1974 single by the British Glam Rock band T. Rex. The track and its B-side feature on the 1975 album Bolan's Zip Gun.


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Almaguin Highlands

Hawksley Workman is a rock singer-songwriter who has garnered critical acclaim for his blend of cabaret pop and glam rock.

Breakfast on Pluto

Pussy's politician lover in the novel becomes a glam rock musician played by Gavin Friday with whom Kitten may or may not have had a sexual relationship, and Pussy's lover Bertie Wooster becomes magician Bertie Vaughan (Stephen Rea), with whom Kitten has an unrequited flirtation.

Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

In addition, the album namechecks many things commonly associated with glam rock, such as drugs, art and fashion; "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal" alludes to Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and specifically mentions Georges Bataille's novella Story of the Eye.

I Don't Fit In

Stevie, a 16-year-old high school student from Westminster, Colorado (A middle class suburb of Denver), has a love for the New York Dolls, a glam-rock band.

Matthau Mikojan

About his mother Sirpa, there is quite no information to find, therefore a lot more about his brother Jukka Kristian Mikkonen, rather known as Sir Christus, ex-lead guitarist of the Glam-Rock band Negative from Tampere.

Nick Skitz

Since 2006, Skitz has released 2 rock compilations called SkitzMetal and SkitzRocks featuring 80s and 90s rock originals like Quiet Riot's "Cum On Feel The Noize" and Scorpion's "Wind Of Change" and some dance remakes of glam rock hits.

Pat Briggs

Pat Briggs is the lead singer of the glam rock band Psychotica.

The Romantic Lead

The Romantic Lead is the second studio album released by the Boston-based glam-rock band Gene Dante and The Future Starlets.

Tino Casal

It was there, that Casal had his first contact with glam-rock, attracted by the stream led by David Bowie, Sweet & T-Rex among others.

United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1985

1970s glam rock singer Alvin Stardust (who had recently enjoyed a comeback in the charts) appeared as a performer as did Fiona Kennedy who was at the time a presenter of TV's Record Breakers.

Ushuaia Rocks!

After two practices they decided to call the band "Ushuaia Rocks!", as a tribute to the 80s Glam Rock band Hanoi Rocks, and to what is often considered the southernmost city in the world, Ushuaia.