Your favourite records from the Glam Rock era. Hopefully some of us on here are old enough to remember.

[TheTecknician]

Sweet - Poppa Joe
Mud - Rocket
Slade - Gudbuy T' Jane. How Does It Feel is great but a little beyond the GR era.
T.Rex - Ride A White Swan. Children of the Revolution also good.

No mention of Gary Glitter songs in order to avoid unpleasantness and controversy. However, The Glitter Band were very talented in their own right.

Suzi Quatro's three early 70s hits were virtually indistinguishable from one another.

Arguably, some early 70s David Bowie, Roxy Music and Wizzard records could be pigeonholed as Glam Rock, though the fans might disagree. Rebel, Rebel and Virginia Plain are my favourites from DB and RM. Wizzard were very full on but samey.

God i bloody love that Slade track Alec, makes me go dreamy every time i hear it!
The Osmonds 'Crazy Horses', gotta be one of the best!

I listen to Johnny Walkers 'sounds of the Seventies' every Sunday, love it, and always surprises me how many fantastic songs there were then.

Some of my classmates used to bring transistor radios (“trannies”) to school to listen to the updated pop charts on Tuesday lunchtimes. I remember one lunchtime, think it was 1973, when Slade came straight into the charts at no 1 with Cum on Feel the Noize. Half the playground erupted with happiness.
My best friend at school and I for a short period used to loudly sing crap versions of My Coo Ca Choo by Alvin Stardust when we thought no one was around.
Dont think anyone yet has mentioned Radar Lover by Golden Earring or Crocodile Rock by Elton.

A couple of songs that are not glam rock but I find very evocative of that time are Beach Baby by First Class who were a band composed of session singers and Seasons in the Sun. The opening cords of SITS just bring it totally back to me.

I'd forgotten about Alvin Stardust. Initially, I understand he was an alias created by Bernard Jewry and Peter Shelley (not the Buzzcocks frontman) to perform Shelley's songs, which he also wrote and produced. I think AS lip-synched over Shelley's vocals for the first hit then sang the rest himself. I honestly couldn't tell the difference between their voices. Peter Shelley would soon score a couple of hits in his own right, Gee Baby and Love Me, Love My Dog.

Maybe more cheese than glam but George Baker Selection's Una Paloma Blanca was always a favourite of mine although it went on to be spoiled slightly by the odious Jonathan King getting in on the act.

Y Viva Espana (Sylvia) and Barbados (Typically Tropical) bring back great memories of the heyday of package holidays and first trips abroad for so many.

Escape (Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes also a great feel-good cheese classic 😁

PS - Agree Fox were a very under-rated band. Still sadly by-passed all too often.

Only You Can
Single Bed
Imagine Me Imagine You

Tails Of Illusion still well worth a listen.

I love Rock n Roll!

Didn't The Goodies do a pisstake of The Rubettes with massive white flat caps? 🤣

Slik Forever and Ever in 1975 before Midge Ure joined Ultravox. My Mum bought the single and I loved it.
Great thread

George Baker Selection would now be in the Schlager category, along with Drafi Deutscher (Mr. Walkie Talkie) and Sylvia Vrethammar of Y Viva Espana infamy.

Fox was fronted by Anoosha Fox, with songs written and produced by Kenny Young. Young fronted the group himself as Yellow Dog a few years later.

I vaguely remember The Goodies singing something called Black Pudding Bertha whilst sporting oversized flat caps.

Forever and Ever by Slik was written by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter, whom had supplied the Bay City Rollers with many of their hits. This could explain why the song is virtually indistinguishable from early Rollers songs!

All the Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople is still one of my favourite songs.

I like this one! Does anyone want to do the dance with me?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m_fkux6Ha9g

TheTecknician I didn't know that! I was listening to it earlier and thought that it could easily be the Bay City Rollers. You are very knowledgeable.

George Baker Selection would now be in the Schlager category, along with Drafi Deutscher (Mr. Walkie Talkie) and Sylvia Vrethammar of Y Viva Espana infamy.

Guess that would also cover Brotherhood Of Man's 'Angelo' which also holds a soft spot in my normally flinty heart.

Ghostlygirl

With enthusiasm:

C'mon and do the bump 💃

Aaand Midge Ure was wasted on Slik.

Ultravox and Vienna are among my all time top 80's picks which are quite extensive having built on the solid 70's legacies they inherited.

The Bump by Kenny. One of several songs that my late parents used to 'dance' to at company dinner dances in the 1970s. Resurrection Shuffle by Ashton, Gardner and Dyke was another.

Kenny, rather like The First Class and other groups fronted by Tony Burrows, essentially existed only in the recording studio. However, Barry Palmer was the vocalist on The Bump, backed by studio musicians. I don't know who sang their subsequent hits. The Bump was yet another song written by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter.

For the record, Tony Burrows provided lead vocals for Edison Lighthouse, White Plains and the 1970 incarnation of Brotherhood of Man, as well as The First Class! It was probably TB fronting The Flowerpot Men on Let's Go To San Francisco too. Same writers and producers anyway!

love all the glam rock

Cos I love you is my favourite Slade I think

Lyndsey de Paul Sugar me?

Slade cuz i love you
Sweet ballroom blitz, teenage rampage
Wizard see my baby jive
Queen bohemian raphsody
Mud tiger feet
David bowie space oddity, aladdin sane, life on mars
Susi Quatro devil gate drive
Donny Osmond puppy love
T rex ride a white swan
can you tell im old i was around 15/16 during this era

love Metal Guru

The Bump was yet another song written by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter.

Probably explains why I was a sucker for the later Stock Aitken and Waterman franchise too 👀

Undeniably all these guys had the ear for music by numbers. Equally undeniably we all karaoke would have suffered if they hadn't 😁

Lynsey de Paul qualifies for a mention as her few hits were all around during the GR era. She was quite a prolific writer; Barry Blue ( his surname was actually Green) co-wrote Storm In A Teacup with LDP. It was one of her B-sides but better known as a top ten hit for The Fortunes in 1972.

I remember No Honestly from 1974, the theme from the eponymous sitcom.

Love’s Unkind, by Donna Summer

Marc Bolan's series, Marc, only ran for six episodes. Episode 3 featured space-rockers Hawkwind performing Quark, Strangeness & Charm. Their keyboard player/violinist Simon House left soon afterwards to join David Bowie's band. He was replaced by Steve Swindells (famously born in a public toilet in Ipswich), formerly of Pilot.

Only connect...

The Sweet's Ballroom Blitz was, without a doubt, the greatest ever glam single. It was later covered by The Damned with Lemmy, also previously of Hawkwind. Lemmy had been a roadie for The Nice, whose keyboard player Keith Emerson was given a hunting knife by Mr Kilmister, which he used on stage to jam down the keys of his organ (oo-er missus). Emerson went on to form Emerson, Lake & Palmer, whose principal lyricist was Peter Sinfield, who produced Roxy Music's Virginia Plain.

...Live in fragments no longer.

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