VARIOUS ARTISTS : GLAM ROCK - THE DVD

  1. Jeepster (T-Rex)
  2. Virginia Plain (Roxy Music)
  3. 48 Crash (Suzi Quatro)
  4. Rock On (David Essex)
  5. Teenage Rampage (The Sweet)
  6. Bye Bye Baby (Bay City Rollers)
  7. How Does it Feel (Medicine Head)
  8. The Man Who Sold the World (Lulu)
  9. Rock Me Baby (David Cassidy)
  10. If You Think You Know How to Love Me (Smokie)
  11. Here Comes the Sun (Steve Harley)
  12. 2-4-6-8 Motorway (Tom Robinson Band)
  13. You Got What it Takes (Showaddywaddy)
  14. Love Hurts (Nazareth)
  15. Here Comes the Weekend (Dave Edmunds)
  16. Tonight's the Night (Rod Stewart)
  17. Do the Strand (Roxy Music)
  18. 20th Century Boy (T-Rex)
  19. Alright Alright Alright (Mungo Jerry)
  20. Public Animal #9 (Alice Cooper)

Label : Classic Pictures

Release Year : 2003

Running Time : 64 minutes

NTSC : 4:3

Review (DVDNet) : The whole musical 'glam? thing of the '70s meant many things to many people, and depending upon who you ask had remarkably varied boundaries. It quickly becomes obvious that those who compiled this collection of archived performances, captured by German TV's Musik Laden, have a VERY broad idea of what it encompassed - for let's face it, the likes of Smokie, Dave Edmunds and Tom Robinson didn't exactly fit the spangly platties without one big fothermucking shoehorn. Bass chicks ROOL! Still, putting pedantic tendencies aside, the 20 songs included here - some mimed, but most of them totally live - feature enough absolutely classic moments to excuse the odd surfacing of the ringers above and the likes of Rod Stewart, Mungo Jerry and Showaddywaddy. Other than the intriguing appearance of '60s poppet Lulu standing static throughout a take on The Man Who Sold the World (hey, if you can't get Bowie you can at least nab one of his songs), the opportunity to catch greats like Marc Bolan and Brian Eno (during his residency with Roxy Music) in action alone are worth the price of admission. Add to this a selection of the decidedly ace in Suzi Quatro, The Sweet and Alice Cooper, plus a grab bag of those heartthrobs we outwardly cringe at (but secretly adore) like the Bay City Rollers, David Essex and David Cassidy, and what you have is over an hour of mostly great fun memories. Well, for us older farts, at any rate.