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In 1985, Autograph had a
huge hit with the Def
Leppard-esque hair metal
anthem "Turn Up the Radio."
With the possible exception
of Def Leppard, no other
band defined the Pop Metal
era of the 1980s better than
Bon Jovi. Everyone's favo...
With a sound that often
mirrored the Stones,
Cinderella showed more
grit than most of their
big-haired contemporarie...
Def Leppard were part of
the New Wave of British
Heavy Metal. Eventually
though, pop hooks would
outweigh the heavy riffs....
Dokken's smart, streamlined
and explosive approach to
hair metal put them
somewhere at the top of
the genre. Dokken forme...
Faster Pussycat weren't the
most original Sunset Strip
pop metal band, but
sometimes originality
doesn't matter so much.
Hard rocking hair band
whose biggest contribution
to the '80s was their Ian
Hunter cover. In the '80s
Great White's biggest hit...
Formed by ex-Guns N' Roses
guitarist Tracii Guns, L.A.
Guns ruled the Sunset Strip
during the glam metal
explosion. Guns also has p...
Former Runaways guitarist
Lita Ford kicked out the
jams in the late '80s with
shiny metal, tougher than
Joan Jett balladry. Ford...
The poster boys for Eighties
hair metal, Mötley
Crüe parlayed whip-lash
hard-rock songs, melodic
power ballads and a hedo...
In 1986, Poison was at the
forefront of the glam metal
scene, known as much for
their music as their gaudy
use of makeup. Poison so...
Quiet Riot was a rowdy
party metal band that hit it
big in the '80s with covers
of Slade songs and
rebellious anthems. Rand...
During the pop metal boom
of the 1980s, Ratt were
considered one of the
major players, with hits on
both the radio and MTV. R...
German rockers known for
the 1980s songs "Rock You
Like A Hurricane" and "No
One Like You." The band
found success in Japan w...
Skid Row got huge on the
strength of "Youth Gone
Wild,""18 and Life," and
singer Sebastian Bach's
public jackassery. Bach h...
Tesla were a good
old-fashioned Hard Rock
band that came to
prominence during the
heyday of hair metal. One...
Nightmarishly dressed in
drag and playing the
cheesiest metal imaginable,
Twisted Sister were like
Quiet Riot, only funnier. T...
This all-female glam metal
band appeared at the tail
end of the pop metal thing.
Their only hit was "Edge of a
Broken Heart."
One of the most successful
pop metal bands of the era,
Warrant even managed to
sell records after Nirvana
took over. "Cherry Pie" is...
Whitesnake had a number
of hits, but they are best
remembered for Tawny
Kitaen's dress in the "Here I
Go Again" video. Whitesna...
Y&T never made it big, but
continued to crank out
non-commercial hard rock
for 20-odd years, paving the
way for hair metal. Y&T na...
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