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Gladys Knight & the Pips
Gladys Knight & the Pips, also billed Gladys Knight and The Pips, were an Atlanta family soul group formed in 1952, known for "Midnight Train to Georgia," "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," and Motown and Buddah hits.
Glam metal
Glam metal, also called hair metal or pop metal, is a 1980s heavy metal subgenre with pop hooks, power ballads, and a flamboyant makeup-and-spandex look centered on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip, peaking with MTV before grunge displaced it.
Glam rock
Glam rock, also known as glitter rock, is a British rock style of the early 1970s marked by performers' glittery, androgynous image, led by T. Rex and David Bowie.
Glare (band)
Glare: American shoegaze band from the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, formed 2017 from the emo band Dispirit; heavy melodic shoegaze on Sunday Drive and Deathwish; debut album Sunset Funeral released April 2025.
Glashaus
Glashaus is a German soul and R&B band founded in 1999 in Frankfurt am Main by singer Cassandra Steen, rapper Moses Pelham, and producer Martin Haas.
Glass Animals
Glass Animals: English indie band formed in Oxford in 2010 (Bayley, MacFarlane, Irwin-Singer, Seaward), known for Zaba, Dreamland, and 'Heat Waves', which took a record 59 weeks to top the Billboard Hot 100.
Glass Beams
Glass Beams: masked Melbourne psychedelic trio formed in 2020 around Indian-Australian producer Rajan Silva, blending Indian classical and Bollywood influences with Western psych rock; EPs Mirage (2021) and Mahal (2024, Ninja Tune).
Glass harmonica
Glass harmonica (armonica, Glasharmonika): friction idiophone of nested spinning glass bowls played with wet fingers, invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761; 37 bowls, three octaves, Mozart and Donizetti repertoire, small modern revival.
Glass Houses (album)
Glass Houses is Billy Joel's seventh studio album (Columbia, March 12, 1980), a New Wave-influenced rock turn produced by Phil Ramone, featuring "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me," his first No. 1 hit, and a 7x Platinum, Grammy-winning record.
Glass Tiger
Glass Tiger, Canadian pop rock band from Newmarket, Ontario (formed as Tokyo, 1981); debut The Thin Red Line (1986) was Canada's fastest-selling debut, with "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100; five Juno Awards, 2025 Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductees.
Glassjaw
Glassjaw is an American post-hardcore band from Hempstead, New York, formed in 1993 by Daryl Palumbo and Justin Beck, known for Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence (2000), Worship and Tribute (2002), and Material Control (2017).
Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival (Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts), founded by Michael Eavis in 1970 at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, is the world's largest greenfield music festival; family-owned, 200,000+ attendees, 2026 fallow year, next edition June 2027.
Glastonbury Festival 2024
Glastonbury Festival 2024, held 26-30 June at Worthy Farm, Pilton, was headlined on the Pyramid Stage by Dua Lipa, Coldplay (record fifth headline), SZA, and Shania Twain, with 210,000 attendees at £355 a ticket.
Glastonbury Festival 2025
Glastonbury Festival 2025: 25–29 June edition at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, headlined by The 1975, Neil Young, and Olivia Rodrigo; 210,000 capacity, £378.50 tickets, sold out in 35 minutes, last festival before the 2026 fallow year.
Glastonbury Festival line-ups
Glastonbury Festival line-ups: the annual performer bills of the festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton, founded 1970 by Michael Eavis. Covers Pyramid Stage headliners from T. Rex to The 1975, Coldplay's record five headline slots, and fallow years.
GLAY
GLAY (グレイ) is a Japanese rock band formed in Hokkaido in 1988, a million-selling 1990s act whose GLAY EXPO '99 concert drew about 200,000 people, then a world record.
Glee club
Glee club: vocal ensemble named for the 18th-century English glee part-song; Harvard (1858), Michigan (1859), Yale (1861), and Penn (1862) founded the oldest American college clubs, which evolved into mixed, touring choral ensembles.
Glen Ballard
Glen Ballard, born 1953 in Natchez, Mississippi, is an American songwriter and producer, not Ballard Power Systems. Known for Michael Jackson's 'Man in the Mirror', Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill (33 million sold), six Grammys, Songwriters Hall of Fame 2023.
Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell (1936–2017), American country-pop singer and Wrecking Crew session guitarist, the Rhinestone Cowboy, known for Wichita Lineman, By the Time I Get to Phoenix, his CBS Goodtime Hour, and his Alzheimer's farewell tour.
Glen Hansard
Glen Hansard is an Irish singer and actor, known as the frontman of The Frames and co-star of the film Once, who won the 2008 Best Original Song Oscar.
Glen Matlock
Glen Matlock, born 1956 in London, is an English bassist and songwriter, founding member of the Sex Pistols who wrote Anarchy in the U.K., God Save the Queen and Pretty Vacant, left in February 1977 for Sid Vicious, later formed Rich Kids and tours with Blondie.
Glen Power
Glen Power (born 1978, Dublin) is the Irish drummer, backing vocalist and founding member of The Script, also a songwriter and composer; sources differ on the band's founding year, and an unrelated Australian real estate agent shares the name.
Glen Washington
Glen Washington, born Glenroy Washington, is a Jamaican roots reggae and lovers rock singer, songwriter, and drummer from Clarendon known for albums including Get Next To Me.
Glenn Danzig
Glenn Danzig (Glenn Allen Anzalone), born 1955 in Lodi, New Jersey, is the American singer-songwriter who founded the Misfits, Samhain, and Danzig, known for his deep bluesy baritone, the hit "Mother", and songs written for Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison.
Glenn Frey
Glenn Frey (Glenn Lewis Frey, 1948-2016), Detroit-born co-founder, co-lead singer and principal songwriter of the Eagles; sang "Take It Easy," "Lyin' Eyes," "New Kid in Town"; had 1980s solo Top 40 hits; died of arthritis, colitis, pneumonia complications.
Glenn Gould
Glenn Gould (1932-1982), Canadian pianist famed for Bach's Goldberg Variations (1955 and 1981 recordings), left the concert stage in 1964 for recording, CBC radio documentaries, and television, winning four Grammys.
Glenn Hughes (American singer)
Glenn Hughes (born Glenn Michael Hughes, 1950–2001) was an American singer who played the leather-clad "Biker" in the disco group Village People from 1977 to about 1996.
Glenn Medeiros
Glenn Alan Medeiros (born 1970), Hawaiian pop singer of Portuguese descent behind "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You" (UK #1) and "She Ain't Worth It" (US #1 with Bobby Brown); later a Hawaii educator and Saint Louis School president.
Glenn Miller
Glenn Miller, born Alton Glenn Miller, was an American trombonist and bandleader whose swing orchestra was America's most popular band from 1939 to 1941 before he vanished over the English Channel in 1944.
Glenn Miller Orchestra
Glenn Miller Orchestra: American big band. Original 1938–1942 swing orchestra behind "In the Mood" and "Moonlight Serenade"; present band formed 1956 under Ray McKinley, still touring worldwide under Glenn Miller Productions.