Block Buster! British Glam Rock of the 70s on Squidoo  

At the beginning of the 1970s, I was in my early teens, an excellent age to appreciate a new phenomenon about to hit the British airwaves: Glam Rock. At the time Glam was a joke. Those of us with Sweet records were laughed at by our friends who were fans of real music: Yes, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin et al. Slade were unhip, as were T.Rex. Even the mighty David Bowie was a pop star laughed at for the make-up and clothes and was only rehabilitated when punk bands started namedropping him.
The Glam bands, however, were to form part of the blueprint for UK punk. The American version related more to the Velvet Underground and the Stooges. However, just listen to Action by the Sweet or anything by T-Rex or Alice Cooper and you can almost feel the UK version of punk bursting forth.
The history of Glam is documented here by its appearances in the UK charts of the time. Why use the charts as a guide? Because, if you weren't in the charts you weren't glam enough!

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