Glam metal (also known as hair metal[1]) is a term used to describe the visual style or fashion of certain heavy metal music bands 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 rock and playing a power-chord based hard rock musical style. “Hair bands” was the term popularized by MTV in the 1990s and derives from the tendency among most such bands to style their long hair in a teased-up fashion The glam metal visual style was heavily influenced by 1970s glam rock acts, with most bands sounding like 1970s/1980s hard rock bands such as Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Queen, Kiss, New York Dolls, Sweet, Slade, Mott the Hoople, T.Rex, Gary Glitter, and others. The very first band of the 1980s to truly travel down the make-up and gaudy clothing route was Finland rock group Hanoi Rocks. They were credited as influences by countless bands, as Hanoi Rocks followed the template laid down by hard rock bands of the 1970s and stuck to the make up and garishness of the New York Dolls. In the United States, many fans credited that the movement on the Sunset Strip was kick-started largely by Mötley Crüe and Nikki Sixx’s former band London after the earliest years when they started as a glam rock band. Others assert that it was kick-started by Quiet Riot’s Metal Health album when it reached #1 in the Billboard …