Music; The Rise and Fall of ’80s Glam Metal A new book, ‘Nöthin’ But A Good Time,’ chronicles the spectacular boom and bust of the decade’s hard-rock industry from Twisted Sister to Trixter ...

If you're a guitarist, our list of Top 20 Hair Metal Guitar Solos will give you quite a challenge. If you're just a fan, they'll give you pure joy.

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

If you're a guitarist, our list of Top 20 Hair Metal Guitar Solos will give you quite a challenge. If you're just a fan, they'll give you pure joy.

The Top 30 glam metal albums, from heavy-hitters like Motley Crue and Poison to diamonds in the rough like Dangerous Toys and Badlands. Skip to main content Skip to site footer.

The result is the new bible of ’80s hard-rock and glam-metal. Weighing in at a hefty 560 pages, “Nothin’ But a Good Time” is just as essential as Motley’s infamous band memoir “The ...

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After growing up in Seattle, where he saw The Clash in concert in 1979, Downe migrated to Los Angeles. There in 1986 he started Faster Pussycat, a group typically filed under glam-metal.