Gary Glitter's music is somewhere between
rock and roll and
disco, with a slow beat (
BOOM tsk TCHAK tsk BOOM tsk TCHAK tsk), simple guitar riffs to accent or counter the melody, a short and muffled sounding
bass to accentuate the beat, and some simple
harmony.
It sounds very bare, with little instrumentation or effect; designed to get stuck into your head. It also sounds as if the musicians were having a good laugh about themselves when creating this stuff.
Among his greatest hits are
Glitter music is simple, but unmistakeable. As simple and self-mocking as it was, it definitely exerted its influence: T Rex is a slimy variant of the genre, and echoes can be heard as far as the Talking Heads's Memories can't wait, Geno by the Dexy's Midnight Runners, U2's Pop experiments, Baby one more time by Britney Spears, and, of course, Do I Wanna Know? by the Arctic Monkeys (2013).
Glitter is alive!