Wiki:
Beginning in 1983 and peaking in success in 1986-1991, the decade saw the resurgence of hard rock music and the emergence of its glam metal subgenre. Bands such as AC/DC, Queen, Def Leppard, Kiss, Mötley Crüe, Bon Jovi, Quiet Riot, Scorpions, Europe, Ratt, Twisted Sister, Poison, Dokken, Whitesnake, and Cinderella were among the most popular acts of the decade. The 1980s saw the emergence of wildly popular hard rock band Guns N’ Roses and the successful comebacks of Aerosmith and Alice Cooper in the late 1980s. The success of hard rock act Van Halen spanned throughout the entire decade, first with singer David Lee Roth and later with Sammy Hagar. Queen, which had expanded its music to experimental and crossover genres in the early 1980s, returned to guitar-driven hard rock with The Miracle in 1989. Additionally, a few women managed to achieve stardom in the 1980s hard rock scene: Pat Benatar, who had been around since the late 1970s, is a prime example of female success in hard rock, and so are both ex-Runaways Joan Jett and Lita Ford.
Sums it up very well..I think.
The creativity was muted. Pop music transformed into electronic keyboard crescendos in every verse and Rock devolved into crap like : Def Leppard, Kiss, Mötley Crüe, Bon Jovi, Quiet Riot, Scorpions, Europe, Ratt, Twisted Sister, Poison, Dokken, Whitesnake, and Cinderella.
AC/DC isn’t symbolic of 80’s music, IMO. Same with Kiss but they were musical posers anyway. Guns-n-Roses were a hard rocking band but there are only a few of their songs that are worth listening to.
Then there’s Van Halen even though they morphed into Van Hagar in the 80’s they were a bright spot on the radio in comparison to the mainstream air play.
Maybe, except for the article to mention, "Additionally, a few women managed to achieve stardom in the 1980s hard rock scene" then not mention that Vixen was the first commercially successful all female metal band seems to leave the article quite incomplete and lacking to me.
\^^/ If its not metal, its crap. \^^/