more music terms

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:46:41 -0500, Mullins, Bill
<Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:

>glam rock (OED has 1974)
>
>David Bowie Arrives With a Burst of Stardust
>ROBERT HILBURN
>Los Angeles Times; Nov 5, 1972; Calendar Section, p 52 col 3.
>"We spearheaded the glamour rock thing in England and as there was an
>equivalent show-time look about the bands in America that Alice had
>spearheaded, it was obvious we were going to be thrown together even
>though the American reviewers hadn't seen us and the English reviewers
>hadn't seen Alice."
>
>The [London] Times, Wednesday, Jan 24, 1973; pg. 15; Issue 58689; col B
>     David Bowie: rock and theatre, Michael Wale.
>"I don't know what's expected of me, I've got this glam rock thing going
>for me, it's a bit difficult to know what to do with it."

* glam (in the glam-rock context)

1972 _Beat Instrumental_ Aug. (backpages.com) Look out — David Bowie's on
his way to superstardom. He's gay. He's glam.
http://backpages.com/article.html?ArticleID=1844

* glam-rock

1972 _Beat Instrumental_ Oct. (backpages.com) Peace rock, acid rock, hard
rock, country rock, psycho rock, fag rock & glam rock, now we've got
sci-fi rock by Roxy Music. ... "It's rather sad for us," he [sc. Bryan
Ferry] commented after I asked him for his opinion on what the press have
termed "glam-rock".
http://backpages.com/features/7210_roxy_turner.html

* glam-rocker

1973 _Circus_ (backpages.com) In the same way, behind the best few of the
so-called glam-rockers were groups of competent musicians, caught up in a
hype that is neither true nor controllable.
http://backpages.com/article.html?ArticleID=5730


--Ben Zimmer