It's more than hair and metal that makes a hair metal band. The bands on this list are often given that label, but is the ...

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, ...

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 ...

It’s a road that wouldn’t have been taken had the band not evolved from its glam-metal roots ... which is not quite up our alley,” Paul told Metal Forces in 1988. “It’s a pretty ...