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GLAM rock - fab wasn't it? Velvet Goldmine certainly thinks so. Todd Haynes's cosmic paean to the era of metal gurus and dreamy ladies is undoubtedly the movie of the moment but it wasn't all pansexual bliss and androgynous abandon back then. Indeed, much of it was hell in hot pants, as a gander at the following Top Five Glam Atrocities will testify.
1, Everybody Looks Stupid
As glitter-rock fever took hold and the need to out-glam one's peers became paramount, Britain became a veritable whirlpool of Lurex-based hedonism and inappropriate hair-dos. The results were abominable. Navvies from Aberdeen to Aberystwyth struggled into gold lame nappies, Radio...