Alexis Petridis on glam rock

Thank you, glam rock, for years of pop bedlamThe introduction to Wired Up, a new book about the glam era, calls it "rock's last innocent pop flowering". It seems a funny thing to say about the genre that gave us Gary Glitter, but once you've looked through 384 pages of record covers, interviews and photographs, you take the point. Glam made stars of the detritus of 60s pop: from David Bowie to Slade to Alvin Stardust, it was packed with artists who'd tried and failed to make it a decade earlier....

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