Art Glam
tagStarted 1972Peak 1972-1979Last big hit 1979
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The art-school, intellectual edge of glam: cabaret crooning, surreal lyrics, synthesizers, treated tape effects and angular avant-garde arrangements wrapped in retro-futurist style. Glam's stomp is filtered through irony and high-concept design, with detached vocals, oblique wordplay and a self-aware fascination with artifice, fashion and pop-art surface.
History
Roxy Music launched it in 1972, pairing Bryan Ferry's lounge-lizard croon with Brian Eno's VCS3 synth squiggles and a pop-art image drawn from Ferry's art-school training. Sparks, Cockney Rebel and Be-Bop Deluxe extended the cerebral, theatrical strain, and the movement's electronic experiments became a key bridge to new wave and synth-pop.
Defining artists
Essential listening
- Virginia Plain — Roxy MusicSpotifyYouTube
- Do the Strand — Roxy MusicSpotifyYouTube
- This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us — SparksSpotifyYouTube
- Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) — Cockney RebelSpotifyYouTube
- Needles in the Camel's Eye — Brian EnoSpotifyYouTube
- Ships in the Night — Be-Bop DeluxeSpotifyYouTube
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxy_Music
- https://www.allmusic.com/artist/roxy-music-mn0000077441
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Roxy-Music