<Ul> <Li> Androgyny </Li> <Li> Visual kei </Li> </Ul> <P> Glam rock is a style of rock that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s performed by musicians who wore outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter . Glam artists drew on diverse sources across music and throwaway pop culture, ranging from bubblegum pop and' 50s rock and roll to cabaret, science fiction, and complex art rock . The flamboyant clothing and visual styles of performers were often camp or androgynous, and have been described as playing with nontraditional gender roles . "Glitter rock" was another term used to refer to a more extreme version of glam . </P> <P> The UK charts were inundated with glam rock acts from 1971 to 1975, with glam also manifesting in all areas of British popular culture during this period . The March 1971 appearance of T. Rex frontman Marc Bolan on the BBC's music show Top of the Pops, wearing glitter and satins, is often cited as the beginning of the movement . Other British glam rock artists include David Bowie, Mott the Hoople, Sweet, Slade, Mud, Roxy Music and Gary Glitter . In the US the scene was much less prevalent, with Alice Cooper and Lou Reed the only American artists to score a hit . Other US glam artists include New York Dolls, Iggy Pop and Jobriath . It declined after the mid-1970s, but influenced other musical genres including punk rock, glam metal, New Romantic, and gothic rock and has sporadically revived since the 1990s . </P> <P> Glam rock can be seen as a fashion as well as musical subgenre . Glam artists rejected the revolutionary rhetoric of the late 1960s rock scene, instead glorifying decadence, superficiality, and the simple structures of earlier pop music . Musically it was very diverse, varying between the simple rock and roll revivalism of figures like Alvin Stardust to the complex art rock of Roxy Music . Artists drew on such musical influences as bubblegum pop, the brash guitar riffs of hard rock, stomping rhythms, and' 50s rock' n roll, filtering them through the recording innovations of the late 1960s . </P>

How is glitter or glam rock different from progressive