Paul Natkin, Getty Images / Jim Steinfeldt ... were at the forefront of what would become the glam metal movement; paving the way years prior, and opening up the genre to an entirely new, female ...

Since its inception by the typings of some clever music journalist in the 80s, the categorization “hair metal” (or “glam metal”) has been as amorphous ... especially with a bluesy, Les Paul-playing, ...

That means no Steven Tyler or Paul Stanley — though we did bend this rule as needed. Got all that? Good. Now read on to see ...

Though grunge did away with hair metal’s cultural ubiquity ... Kiefer often used a Gibson Les Paul, which gave Cinderella’s albums a timeless quality outside of MTV’s Headbangers Ball.