What does Glam Rock look like?

What do you think of when you overhear the utterance of those two words: 'Glam Rock'? Intimidating hairstyles (think industrial amounts of hairspray, RSI from backcombing hair, and the dangers of bleach), unhealthy obsessions with lurid make-up and hip-thrusts? If you said yes, you're on the fast track to 'Preparing THAT costume for the requisite Glam Rock themed dress-up party'.

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Glam Rock 101 - A listing of a few essential albums and videos can be found at this website: www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1159843_3,00.html

David Bowie. This man IS glam rock style, managing with grace, albeit scarily so.


The same cannot be said of others. Here is the blank space where many hair-raisingly frightening pictures of those golden years, the 70s, should have been.



What would current glam rock look like?
When I ponder this, I am less inclined to cower behind the couch, holding a pair of safety scissors and a Radiohead CD (hopefully as far away from glam rock as it can get without polar attraction) before me to ward off the horror. As for modern glam rock? Fancy costumes, colourful face paint, music with self-possessed swagger...These are the musicians I think of:

Karen O (Lead singer of Yeah Yeah Yeahs) - the coolest lady in rock.



Indie-style glowstick-wielders Klaxons




Also, although it may be more 80s rave party than glam rock fashionistas, this video clip has value for the dancing, neon costumes and James not even pretending to play his keyboard but making hilarious hand motions instead.
Here: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=VvzkVKhUVL0