10 Oct 2017

The birth of Glam Rock

From Afternoons, 2:21 pm on 10 October 2017

Our music feature guest today is one of the country's leading music academics and sometimes performer, Dr Ian Chapman, who is an expert on the glam rock movement.

Dr Chapman teaches students about performance, song-writing, music iconography at Otago University. In 2008 he started doing gigs in his own Glam Rock alter-ego, Dr Glam. He's since retired that performer.

And in 2012 he finished his PhD - a study of Glam Rock's most well known rockstar David Bowie's album covers between 1967 and 1980.