John Lennon once described glam rock simply as rock and roll with lipstick ... Peopled with real-life characters from Andy Warhol's Factory scene, the album is in essence a snapshot of New York's ...

But now Gary Glitter has been written out of the definitive history of glam rock in favour of Noël Coward ... on Pickwick in the early Seventies. And characters like Alvin Stardust or the ...

The foursome even added to their wild glam rock personas by giving themselves character names associated with their makeup: Stanley became the Star Child; Simmons, the Demon; Frehley, the Space ...