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Glam metal
Glam metal (also known as hair metal) is a subgenre of heavy metal that arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States, particularly on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip music scene. It was popular throughout the 1980s and briefly in the early 1990s, combining the flamboyant look of glam...
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Mötley Crüe
Mötley Crüe is an American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1981. The band was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead singer Vince Neil. Mötley Crüe...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Jan 1981
Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson is an American rock band founded by Brian Warner and Scott Putesky in the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The band advocates nonconformism and iconoclasm, often utilizing controversial imagery and lyrical content. It is difficult to...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1990
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Tommy Lee
Tommy Lee (b. October 3, 1962) is an American musician, and founding member of glam metal band Mötley Crüe. As well as being the band's long-term drummer, Lee founded rap-metal band Methods of Mayhem, and has pursued solo musical projects. He was...
Date of birth:
- Oct 3, 1962 (age 47 years)
Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi is hard rock band from New Jersey. Its lead singer is Jon Bon Jovi, its namesake. The band has sold over 100 million albums worldwide. The band was formed in 1983 with its original members: Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, David Bryan,...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1983
Robbin Crosby
Robbin Crosby (August 4, 1959 – June 6, 2002), born Robbinson Lantz Crosby and nicknamed "King", was co-lead guitarist in the Glam metal band Ratt, earning several platinum albums in the U.S. in the mid-to-late 1980s.
Robbin Crosby's guitar playing...
Date of birth:
- Aug 4, 1959
Date of death:
- Jun 6, 2002 (age 42 years)
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Dokken
Dokken is an American heavy metal and hard rock band that was formed in 1978. The group accumulated numerous charting singles and has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide.
Dokken was composed of founder Don Dokken on vocals, George Lynch on...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1978
Van Halen
Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California in 1972. They have enjoyed large scale success since the release of their self titled debut album in 1978. As of 2007, Van Halen has sold 90 million albums worldwide and have had...
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Richie Sambora
Richard Stephen Sambora (born on July 11, 1959), is an American rock guitarist, producer, musician, singer/ songwriter who is the longtime lead guitarist of the popular rock band Bon Jovi. He and frontman Jon Bon Jovi form the primary songwriting...
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- Jul 11, 1959 (age 50 years)
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KISS
Kiss (styled KISS in capitals) is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Easily identified by its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid-1970s on the basis of their elaborate...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1972
Peter Criss
George Peter John Criscuola (born December 20, 1945), better known as Peter Criss, is an American musician best known as the original drummer for the rock band Kiss. Criss established the "Catman" character for his Kiss persona.
Of Italian-American...
Date of birth:
- Dec 20, 1945 (age 64 years)
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Ace Frehley
Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley (pronounced /ˈfreɪli/; born April 27, 1951) is an American guitarist best known as an original member and lead guitarist for the rock band Kiss. He took on the persona of "The Spaceman" when the band adopted costumes and...
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- Apr 27, 1951 (age 58 years)
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Pantera
Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas, formed by the Abbott brothers, Vinnie Paul (drums) and "Dimebag" Darrell (guitar), then known as Diamond Darrell, in 1981. Bassist Rex Brown then known as Rex Rocker would join in 1982,...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1982
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 2003
Whitesnake
Whitesnake are an English rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale (formerly of Deep Purple). The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple but by the mid 1980s Whitesnake had moved away from the early blues influenced...
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Ratt
Ratt is an American heavy metal band that formed in San Diego and enjoyed significant commercial success in the 1980s. The band is most notable for their songs "Round and Round," "Wanted Man," "Lay It Down," "You're in Love", "Way Cool Jr." and ...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1981
Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot was an American heavy metal band whose 1983 US Festival appearance helped to solidify metal's image. They are best known for their hit singles "Cum On Feel the Noize" and "Metal Health." They were founded in 1973 by guitarist Randy Rhoads...
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Warren DeMartini
Warren Justin DeMartini (born April 10, 1963), nicknamed Torch, is the lead guitarist for Ratt, a popular American band during the mid-to-late 1980s Los Angeles glam metal scene.
DeMartini was born on April 10, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois. He is the...
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- Apr 10, 1963 (age 46 years)
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Poison
Poison is an American glam metal band that achieved success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. To date, the band has sold more than 25 million records worldwide, including 14.5 million in the United States alone. The band has also charted 10 singles...
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W.A.S.P.
W.A.S.P. is an American heavy metal band formed in 1982. They emerged from the same Los Angeles scene that spawned Mötley Crüe, Ratt, Quiet Riot and others. The band's popularity peaked in the 1980s, yet they continue to record and tour, making them...
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Def Leppard
Def Leppard are an English rock band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Largely on the strength of their albums Pyromania and Hysteria, Def Leppard became one of the top-selling rock bands...
Place Musical Career Began:
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1977
Slade
Slade are an English rock band. The British Hit Singles & Albums stated they were the top UK group of the 1970s. They were the first act to have three singles enter at #1, and all six of the Wolverhampton band's chart-topping stompers were penned by...
Place Musical Career Began:
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1966
Great White
Great White is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1978. The band gained popularity during the 1980s and early 1990s. The band released several albums in the late 1980s and gained airplay on MTV with music videos for songs like ...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1981
Nikki Sixx
Nikki Sixx (born Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna, Jr., December 11, 1958) is an American bassist, author, photographer, and the main songwriter for the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe. He has also played bass for glam metal band London, the experimental...
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- Dec 11, 1958 (age 51 years)
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Randy Rhoads
Randall William "Randy" Rhoads (December 6, 1956 – March 19, 1982) was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot. Despite his short career, he is cited as an influence by many contemporary heavy metal guitarists....
Date of birth:
- Dec 6, 1956
Date of death:
- Mar 19, 1982 (age 25 years)
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Andy McCoy
Antti Hulkko (born October 11, 1962 in Pelkosenniemi, Finland), better known as Andy McCoy, is a Finnish musician. He is most famous for his role as the lead guitarist and main songwriter of Hanoi Rocks. He also wrote the song "Wild Talk" and played...
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- Oct 11, 1962 (age 47 years)
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Vince Neil
Vincent Neil Wharton is the lead singer for the band Mötley Crüe.
Neil was born in Hollywood, California to Odie and Shirley Wharton. During the 1960s, his family moved around Southern California from Inglewood to Watts, before finally settling in...
Date of birth:
- Feb 8, 1961 (age 48 years)
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Dimebag Darrell
Darrell Lance Abbott, also known as "Diamond Darrell", "Dimebag Darrell", or simply "Dime" (August 20, 1966 – December 8, 2004) was an American guitarist, best known as a founding member of the heavy metal bands Pantera and Damageplan. He also...
Date of birth:
- Aug 20, 1966
Date of death:
- Dec 8, 2004 (age 38 years)
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Extreme
Extreme is an American rock band, headed by frontmen Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt, that reached the height of their popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Among some of Extreme's musical influences are Queen and Van Halen. (Gary Cherone...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1985
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1996
Lita Ford
Lita Ford (born September 19, 1958) is a British-born, American rock musician and singer who was the lead guitarist for The Runaways and achieved popularity for her solo career between the 1980s and late 2000s.
Ford was born Carmelita Rossanna Ford...
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- Sep 19, 1958 (age 51 years)
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Kingdom Come
Kingdom Come is a hard rock band fronted by Hamburg-born vocalist Lenny Wolf. The group's first album, Kingdom Come was that band's only international hit. The musical style on their debut was very close to the early blues-rock style of Led Zeppelin...
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X Japan
X Japan (エックス ジャパン, Ekkusu Japan) is a Japanese metal band founded in 1982 by Toshimitsu "Toshi" Deyama and Yoshiki Hayashi. Originally named X (エックス), the group achieved its breakthrough success in 1989 with the release of their second album Blue...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1976
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1997
Europe
Europe is a Swedish hard rock band formed in Upplands Väsby in 1979 under the name Force by vocalist Joey Tempest and guitarist John Norum. Although widely associated with glam metal, the band's sound incorporates heavy metal and hard rock elements....
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1982
Twisted Sister
Twisted Sister is an American heavy metal band from New York City. Their work fuses the shock tactics of Alice Cooper, the rebellious mood of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and the extravagant image of glam rock bands such as New York Dolls...
Place Musical Career Began:
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1973
The Darkness
The Darkness were a Brit Award-winning English hard rock band that formed in Lowestoft, Suffolk in 2000. Originally comprising lead vocalist, guitarist and pianist Justin Hawkins, his guitarist and backing vocalist brother Dan Hawkins, bassist...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 2000
Andrew W.K.
Andrew W.K. (born Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier) (May 9, 1979) is an entertainer and rock musician from the United States.
Andrew W.K. was born in Stanford, California, and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. At age 4, he began learning classical piano...
Date of birth:
- May 9, 1979
Date of death:
- May 9, 1979
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Kevin DuBrow
Kevin DuBrow (October 29, 1955 – c. November 19, 2007) was an American rock singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Quiet Riot from 1973 until his death in 2007. During Quiet Riot's commercial heyday in the 1980s, DuBrow was...
Date of birth:
- Oct 29, 1955
Date of death:
- Nov 19, 2007 (age 52 years)
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Phil Anselmo
Philip Hansen "Phil" Anselmo (born June 30, 1968 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American musician who is best known as the frontman for the heavy metal band Pantera. He is currently the frontman for heavy metal band Down. He is also the owner of...
Date of birth:
- Jun 30, 1968 (age 41 years)
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Justin Hawkins
Justin David Hawkins (born 17 March 1975 in Chertsey, Surrey, England) is an English musician and singer-songwriter, best known for being the former lead singer and lead guitarist of The Darkness, alongside his brother, guitarist Dan Hawkins....
Date of birth:
- Mar 17, 1975 (age 34 years)
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Mar 17, 1975
Hanoi Rocks
Hanoi Rocks was a Finnish rock band formed in 1979, whose most successful period came in the early 1980s. The band broke up in 1985 after the death of their drummer, Nicholas 'Razzle' Dingley. The vocalist Michael Monroe and guitarist Andy McCoy...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1980
Vinnie Vincent
Vincent John Cusano (born August 6, 1952), better known as Vinnie Vincent, is a guitarist and songwriter most famous for his brief membership in the band Kiss. Vincent played on the album Creatures of the Night and subsequently toured with Kiss in ...
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- Aug 6, 1952 (age 57 years)
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Ed Graham
Ed Graham (full name Edwin James Graham) was the drummer in the English rock band The Darkness as well as the subsequent successor band Stone Gods, before officially leaving in 2008 due to a physical inability to perform.
Graham was born on 20...
Date of birth:
- 1976 (age 34 years)
Gary Cherone
Gary Cherone (pronounced /ʃəˈroʊn/, shər-ROHN; born July 26, 1961) is an American rock singer-songwriter. He is best known for his work with the rock group Extreme, as well as his short stint as the lead singer for Van Halen on the Van Halen III...
Date of birth:
- Jul 26, 1961 (age 48 years)
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David Bryan
David Bryan (born David Bryan Rashbaum, February 7, 1962, Edison, New Jersey) is the keyboard player of the band Bon Jovi. Bryan also sings backing vocals and often at live shows sings part of or the whole of the song "In These Arms", one of a...
Date of birth:
- Feb 7, 1962 (age 47 years)
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Dan Hawkins
Daniel Francis Hawkins (born 12 December 1976 in Chertsey, England) is an English rock guitarist, noted for his strong revival of 70s classic rock and 80s metal.
He is best known for his time as guitarist and backing singer of the UK band, The...
Date of birth:
- Dec 12, 1976 (age 33 years)
Cinderella
Cinderella is an American rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They emerged in the mid-1980s with a series of multi-platinum albums and hit singles whose music videos received heavy MTV rotation. They were famous for being a glam metal and...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1984
Eric Carr
Paul Charles Caravello (July 12, 1950 – November 24, 1991), better known as Eric Carr, was an American musician, best known as drummer for the rock band Kiss. Caravello was selected as the new Kiss drummer after Peter Criss left the band in 1980. He...
Date of birth:
- Jul 12, 1950
Date of death:
- Nov 24, 1991 (age 41 years)
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Helix
Helix are a Canadian hard rock/heavy metal band that formed in 1974 and are best known for their single "Rock You" from 1984. The original lineup was formed by drummer Bruce Arnold, and consisted of lead vocalist Brian Vollmer, guitarists Ron Watson...
Keel
Keel is an American heavy metal band founded in 1984 in Los Angeles, California. They were known for their rock anthem "The Right to Rock." The band was active until 1989, with a brief reunion in 1998. Keel reunited in 2008 and is currently touring...
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Faster Pussycat
Faster Pussycat is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1986.
The group was most successful during the late 1980s with their self-titled debut album and their 1989 gold album Wake Me When It's Over.
Faster Pussycat was...
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Tesla
Tesla is an American hard rock band formed in Sacramento, California in 1984. They have sold 16 million albums in the United States as of 2008.
The band formed in 1984 in Sacramento as City Kidd, and was renamed Tesla during the recording of their...
Place Musical Career Began:
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1986
Warlock
Warlock was a German heavy metal band, assembled in 1982. The band gained some commercial success in the mid 1980s. By the end of the decade, singer Doro Pesch was the sole original member who remained in the band, and thus proceeded to form Doro, a...
Place Musical Career Began:
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1983
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1988
Desmond Child
Desmond Child (born John Charles Barratt, October 28, 1953 in Gainsville, Florida) is an American musician, songwriter, and producer. He is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
For nearly three decades, songwriter/producer Desmond Child has...
Date of birth:
- Oct 28, 1953 (age 56 years)
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Ray Gillen
Raymond 'Ray' Gillen (May 12, 1959 – December 1, 1993) was an American rock singer, best known for his work with Badlands, in addition to his stint with Black Sabbath in the mid-1980's.
Ray was born on May 12, 1959 in New York but was raised in...
Date of birth:
- May 12, 1959
Date of death:
- Dec 1, 1993 (age 34 years)
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Murderdolls
The Murderdolls is an American horror punk band founded during 2002 in Hollywood, California. The band line-up consists of Wednesday 13, Joey Jordison, Acey Slade, Eric Griffin and Ben Graves, though the group are currently on a hiatus.
To date the...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1995
Stephen Pearcy
Stephen Eric Pearcy (born July 3, 1959) is the lead singer of the 80's glam metal band Ratt. With Ratt, he helped catapult the band to multi-platinum success for a decade, and wrote many of the band's hits including; "Back for More", "You're in Love...
Date of birth:
- Jul 3, 1959 (age 50 years)
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Juan Croucier
Juan Croucier (born on August 22 1959 in Santiago De Las Vegas, Cuba) is a Cuban-American heavy metal musician.
Croucier attended South Torrance High School in Torrance, California. Formerly a bassist for the metal bands Dokken and Ratt, Croucier...
Date of birth:
- Aug 22, 1959 (age 50 years)
Place of birth:
Discharge
Discharge is a British hardcore punk band formed in 1977 by Terry "Tezz" Roberts and Roy "Rainy" Wainwright. They are often considered among one of the very first bands to play hardcore punk, and mixing punk with metal. While the band had...
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Lit
Lit is an alternative rock band, based in Fullerton, California. They released several singles in the 1990s and early 2000s including "My Own Worst Enemy", "Miserable", "Zip-Lock", "Over My Head", "Lipstick and Bruises", "Addicted", "Looks Like They...
Place Musical Career Began:
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1989
Noddy Holder
Neville John "Noddy" Holder MBE (born 15 June 1946) is an English musician and actor, best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and occasional bass guitarist with the rock band Slade.
Holder co-wrote most of Slade's material with bassist,...
Date of birth:
- Jun 15, 1946 (age 63 years)
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Mick Mars
Mick Mars (born Robert Alan Deal, May 4, 1951 in Terre Haute, Indiana is the lead guitarist for North American hard rock band Mötley Crüe.
After his family relocated from Indiana, to California, Robert Deal dropped out of high school and began...
Date of birth:
- 1951 (age 59 years)
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L.A. Guns
L.A. Guns is a name used by two American glam metal bands whose music is frequently associated with the L.A. glam metal scene which grew up around the Sunset Strip in the 1980s, in particular the sleaze rock subgenre. Guns N' Roses, which once...
