Glam & its evil children

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You should never have opened that door !

Ah Glam...the forerunner to punk...the New York Dolls...punk before the time...seminal...without them the Pistols would never have happened. Blah Blah Blah...makeup...controversial...

Before you get all smug just remember this...thanks to glam and the Dolls this went and bloody happened...

I love you love .............Gary Glitter. Jesus Christ an overweight porker with a chest rug dressed in cling foil, the bouffant hairstyle ...the cruelest parody of the dolls on hamburgers ....and we fell for it. He was about 40 at the time setting the world alight with sub tribal drumming boot boy  vocal choirs and the simplest of riffs that demanded he strut. No sexual ambiguity here Gary was all man and just fucking hideous at that. Little kids however proved to be his downfall later on and we'll leave it at that.
Glam USA style...In the seventies glam completely bypassed the US of A where they contented themselves with  endless guitar solos and buying Fleetwood Mac and Peter Frampton albums by the million. Around the early Eighties though they suddenly remembered it and all of a sudden boys who do girls like their boys appeared in their droves complete with cowboy boots and tight spandex pants and boy did we suffer. Poison, Motley Crue, early Bon Jovi, Faster Pussycat, LA Guns and Guns & Roses were just a few while over here we had those lovable clowns in makeup Wrathchild and Tigertailz ...you had to be careful at gigs and check for stubble !!! Who do I blame ...the  New York Dolls...... They don't mention this in punk books but I do coz its hilarious.

Just looking for a kiss... and some cheap makeup

Motley Crue..just popping out to the shop for a loaf of bread

And  how about this for a killer . These bands became larger and larger turning into bloated decadent stadium monsters divorced from  the real world .....sound familiar ?....remember the seventies ? And lo what killed these bands deader than a dodo virtually overnight....the mighty Nirvana....what goes around comes around boys. 
Suck on it ......!

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