GLAM ROCK - made in UK!

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Elton John fashion

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Suzi Quatro Popster special

Mott The Hoople

Sparks on the cover of Extra Encyclorock (December 1974)

Marc Bolan of T.Rex, by Masayoshi Sukita, 1972

Suzi Quatro

Elton John

Alice Cooper

Bowie fans outside a David Bowie concert in 1973 at Earls Court, London.

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Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us

Sparks

David Johansen of The New York Dolls on the cover of Rock & Folk (January 1974)

Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home a Heartache [OGWT 1973]

Sparks

We were very happy that Island Records allowed us not to have the name of the band nor the album title on the front cover. We thought the image alone would speak loudly enough. Try to get a company to go along with that concept today!" - Russell Mael

The sleeve for the “Kimono My House” LP was way ahead of its time: no band name or title, just two harshly-lit, slightly low-rent geishas, one shocked by something out of shot, one unshockable. No band name or title, just these japanese women on a green background. The geishas were supposed to look elegant and naughty. The photo by Karl Stoeker used for the front cover was an outtake that happened at the end of the session that everybody thought worked.

“We were both actresses touring with a Japanese theatre company in Europe and the USA. My husband Joji Hirota was musical director. A record company (Island records) approached our director looking for Japanese women, and we were asked to do the modeling. I am the woman on the right (with a fan)" - Michi Hirota