All The Young Dudes: The Return of Glam Rock

YOU COULD argue that glam – glamour, from an old Scottish word meaning "a haze in the air" – was always intrinsic to pop music. Elvis was glam, Little Richard was glam. The Rolling Stones of mid-sixties Swinging London were indisputably glam. Glitz and makeup were central to the appeal of pop’s epicene wonderboys.