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The style can be traced back to acts like Aerosmith, Kiss, Boston, Cheap Trick, and The New York Dolls. Van Halen has been seen as highly influential on the movement

In the early 1980s a number of bands from across the US began to move towards what would become the glam metal sound. These included Kix Night Ranger

The most active scene was in the clubs on Sunset Strip, Los Angeles,

By the mid-1980s, glam metal had begun to be a major mainstream success. Los Angeles continued to foster the most important scene around the Sunset Strip, The most commercially significant release of the era was by Bon Jovi from New Jersey, with Slippery When Wet (1986), which mixed hard rock with a pop sensitivity, and spent a total of eight weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart, selling over 12 million copies in the US.

Mötley Crüe with Girls, Girls, Girls (1987) continued their run of commercial success, and Def Leppard with Hysteria (1987) hit their commercial peak,

the excesses of glam metal create a backlash against the genre.

One significant factor in the decline was the rise of grunge music from Seattle

During the late 1990s and the 2000s glam metal bega a revival. Bon Jovi were still able to achieve a commercial hit with "It's My Life" (2000). Mötley Crüe reunited

reunions and subsequent tours from Van Halen

Glam metal experienced a partial resurgence around the turn of the century, due in part to increased interest on the Internet, with the successful 'Glam Slam Metal Jam' music festival taking place in the summer of 2000. By the early 2000s, a handful of new bands began to revive glam metal in one form or another. The Darkness', topped the UK charts,

Los Angeles band Steel Panther managed to gain a following by playing 80s style glam metal.