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The hair, or glam, metal bands of the 1980s remain one of the true guilty pleasures in music history. The hair spray, makeup, and catchy pop tunes touched up with distortion were made for MTV.

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Metal music revolves around a few key components: heavily distorted guitar riffs and chords ... Metal began to branch out into sub-genres, with glam and hair metal acts like Motley Crue and ...