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Glam rock is a style of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s performed by musicians who wore outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter.[1] Glam artists drew on diverse sources across music and throwaway pop culture,[2] ranging from bubblegum pop and 1950s rock and roll to cabaret, science fiction, and complex art rock.[3][4] The flamboyant clothing and visual styles of performers were often camp or androgynous, and have been described as playing with nontraditional gender roles.[5] Glitter rock was a more extreme version of glam.[6] The UK charts were inundated with glam rock acts from 1971 to 1975.[7] The March 1971 appearance of T. Rex frontman Marc Bolan on the BBC's music show Top of the Pops, wearing glitter and satins, is often cited as the beginning of the movement. Other British glam rock artists include Those not central to the genre, such as Elton John, Rod Stewart and Freddie Mercury of Queen, also adopted glam styles.[8] In the United States the scene was much less prevalent, with Alice Cooper and Lou Reed the only American artists to score a hit.[7] Other American glam artists include New York Dolls, Sparks, Suzi Quatro, Iggy Pop and Jobriath. It declined after the mid-1970s, but influenced other musical genres including punk rock, glam metal, New Romantic, deathrock and gothic rock. Contents 1 Characteristics 2 History 3 Influence 4 Film 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links Characteristics David Bowie during the 1972–73 Ziggy Stardust Tour Glam rock can be seen as a fashion as well as musical subgenre.[9] Glam artists rejected the revolutionary rhetoric of the late 1960s rock scene, instead glorifying decadence, superficiality, and the simple structures of earlier pop music.[10][11] In response to these characteristics, scholars
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