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hair metal

Rock or heavy metal music of the late 1980s performed by highly commercialized bands characterized by elaborate hairstyles, grotesque makeup, and highly theatrical costumes and stage sets.
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In the '80s, it was spandex and hairspray as Hair Metal dominated MTV with songs of booze, fast cars and even faster women.
One More Reason and Sex Action stand alongside No Mercy as the most revealing examples of a band emboldened by a songwriting partnership that would go on to spawn the top 40 hair metal classic Cocked & Loaded.
I ain't calling it hair metal, 'cause it has nothing to do with heavy metal.
4 p.m.: Black Diamond performs hard rock and hair metal songs
"I was a huge fan of the hair metal genre, and I still listen to 'Hair Nation' on Sirius/XM.
moonfruit.com Saith Seren, Wrexham 01978 447006 Event: Devilstomp Time: 9pm Details: 80s/90s hair metal and classic rock show.
029 2087 8444 MUSIC Motley Crude & Poizon - For all the hair metal fans - you get two of the UK's top tributes.
Judas Priest was perhaps most influential in setting the stage for the more mainstream subgenre of "hair metal" with the band's 1980 album "British Steel," which featured comparatively accessible songs "Breaking the Law" and "Living After Midnight."
We're introduced to the lady tweaker "Chew Toy," who wears moon boots and sings hair metal songs all night as she collects recyclable bottles.
That the most notorious metal band of the 1980s (OK, except for Motley Crue) will be headlining a music festival in the California desert is proof of an unlikely phenom: The hair metal that Gen Xers rocked out to is now legitimate fare for their millennial offspring.
I love RnB and Hip Hop, Usher, Eminem and so forth, as well as I have a penchant for Hair Metal from the 80s!
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