a style of rock music performed by musicians who wore outrageous costumes (at the time), makeup, and hairstyles. musically speaking glam rock bands are pretty diverse in style but tied to already existing rock subgenres of that time. some of them drew inspiration from hard rock, others from rock n' roll, folk rock or similar styles.

• reference artists:

sweet, slade, new york dolls, queen, cinderella, david bowie (72-74), mott the hoople.

• important glam rock album:

queen - queen ii (1974)