Editing Glam rock (section)

==Influence and legacy==
[[File:Boy George At Ronnie Scotts.jpg|thumb|A figure in the [[new romantic]] movement, [[Boy George]] of [[Culture Club]] (performing in 2001) was influenced by glam rock icons Bolan and Bowie.<ref>{{citation |first=Robin |last=Murray |url=https://www.clashmusic.com/features/boy-george-how-to-make-a-pop-idol |title=Boy George: How To Make A Pop Idol |work=Clash|date=30 October 2013 |access-date=6 November 2021}}</ref>]]
While glam rock was exclusively a British cultural phenomenon, with Steven Wells in ''[[The Guardian]]'' writing "Americans only got glam second hand via the posh Bowie version", covers of British glam rock classics are now piped-muzak staples at US sporting events.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Wells|first1=Steven|title=Why Americans don't get glam rock|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2008/oct/14/starbucks-glam-rock|agency=The Guardian|date=14 October 2008}}</ref> Glam rock was a background influence for [[Richard O'Brien]], writer of the 1973 London musical ''[[The Rocky Horror Show]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reynolds |first1=Simon |title=Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century |date=2016 |publisher=Faber & Faber}}</ref> Although glam rock went into a steep decline in popularity in the UK in the second half of the 1970s, it had a direct influence on acts that rose to prominence later, including [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] and American [[glam metal]] acts like [[Quiet Riot]], [[W.A.S.P. (band)|W.A.S.P.]], [[Twisted Sister]], [[Bon Jovi]], [[Mötley Crüe]] and [[Ratt]].<ref>R. Moore, ''Sells Like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis'' (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2009), {{ISBN|0-8147-5748-0}}, p. 105.</ref>

[[New Romantic]] acts in the UK such as [[Adam and the Ants]] and [[A Flock of Seagulls]] extended glam, and its androgyny and sexual politics were picked up by acts including [[Culture Club]], [[Bronski Beat]] and [[Frankie Goes to Hollywood]].<ref name=Auslander2006p79>P. Auslander, "Watch that man David Bowie: Hammersmith Odeon, London, July 3, 1973" in I. Inglis, ed., ''Performance and Popular Music: History, Place and Time'' (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), {{ISBN|0-7546-4057-4}}, p. 79.</ref> [[Gothic rock]] was largely informed by the makeup, clothes, theatricality and sound of glam, and [[punk rock]] adopted some of the performance and persona-creating tendencies of glam, as well as the genre's emphasis on pop-art qualities and simple but powerful instrumentation.<ref name="Auslander2006p80"/>

[[File:David Bowie Madame Tussauds London.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=A wax figure of a red-haired man with a gold "astral sphere" across his forehead.|Wax figure of Bowie at [[Madame Tussauds]], London]]
Glam rock has been influential around the world.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chapman |first1=Ian |last2=Johnson |first2=Henry |title=Global Glam and Popular Music: Style and Spectacle from the 1970s to the 2000s |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |isbn=9781138821767}}</ref> In Japan in the 1980s, [[visual kei]] was strongly influenced by glam rock aesthetics.<ref>I. Condry, ''Hip-hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization'' (Duke University Press, 2006), {{ISBN|0-8223-3892-0}}, p. 28.</ref> Glam rock has since enjoyed continued influence and sporadic modest revivals in R&B crossover act [[Prince (musician)|Prince]],<ref>P. Auslander, ''Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music'' (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2006), {{ISBN|0-7546-4057-4}}, p. 227.</ref> bands such as [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]], [[Suede (band)|Suede]], [[Placebo (band)|Placebo]],<ref>P. Buckley, ''The Rough Guide to Rock'' (London: Rough Guides, 3rd edn., 2003), {{ISBN|1-84353-105-4}}, p. 796.</ref> [[Chainsaw Kittens]], [[Spacehog]] and [[The Darkness (band)|the Darkness]],<ref>R. Huq, ''Beyond Subculture: Pop, Youth and Identity in a Postcolonial World'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 2006), {{ISBN|0-415-27815-5}}, p. 161.</ref> and has inspired pop artists such as [[Lady Gaga]].<ref name="Enduring"/>

{{blockquote|Its self-conscious embrace of fame and ego continues to reverberate through pop music decades after the death of its prototypical superstar, [[Marc Bolan]] of T. Rex, in 1977. As an elastic concept rather than a fixed stratosphere of '70s personalities, it is even equipped to survive the loss of its most enduring artist, [[David Bowie]].|Judy Berman writing for ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' in 2016, ''From Bowie to Gaga: How Glam Rock Lives On''.<ref name="Enduring">{{cite news |title=From Bowie to Gaga: How Glam Rock Lives On|url=https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1333-from-bowie-to-gaga-how-glam-rock-lives-on/ |access-date=2 January 2020 |website=Pitchfork}}</ref>}}