David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Bryan Ferry, and Iggy Pop were the icons that defined the music known as glam rock. With outrageous getups and glitz cosmetic artistry, they were the gender-bending, trendsetting performers of the music movement that was centered in London but electrified the world. Now, in the first book of its kind, a rock music journalist takes a no-holds-barred tour of a chapter in pop music history that was as transient as stardust...and which influenced countless musicians in the decades that followed, including Prince, Madonna, Annie Lennox, Guns 'N' Roses, and others.
Published in time for the release of Todd Haynes' eagerly awaited film, Velvet Goldmine, Barney Hoskyns' GLAM! captures a thrilling, thoroughly over-the-top time in pop's life, an age of visual excess as rococo as it was space-age. From Oscar Wilde to Ziggy Stardust, from Liberace to Lou Reed and T Rex to Roxy Music, here is the flamboyant decadence, the androgyny, and the sheer unadulterated fun of the early Seventies -- in an incredible rock history that tells it like it was.
