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Various Artists: Oh Yes We Can Love – A History Of Glam Rock

Barney Hoskyns, Universal Records, August 2013

GLAMOUR HAS always been pivotal to pop music. Elvis Presley was Glam, and so were Little Richard ('Ooh My Soul') and Billy Fury ('Jealousy'). The Rolling Stones of Swinging London were unquestionably Glam: they even dressed in drag to push their 1966 single 'Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?'

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