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Glass Tiger is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Bruce Hornsby and Bryan Adams. Those roots explain a lot about how Glass Tiger arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Chilliwack, Loverboy, Kim Mitchell, Richard Marx and John Parr, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Julian Lennon and Susan Aglukark, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around Glass Tiger, reaching back through Bruce Hornsby and forward to Julian Lennon. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Glass Tiger is a Canadian rock band from Newmarket, Ontario that formed in 1981. The band has released five studio albums. Its 1986 debut album, The Thin Red Line, went quadruple platinum in Canada and gold in the United States. Two singles from that album, "Don't Forget Me " and "Someday", reached the U.S. Top 10. Glass Tiger has won five Juno Awards and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1987. In 2025, the band was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
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Glass Tiger connections
Glass Tiger grew out of Bruce Hornsby and Bryan Adams, shares an orbit with Chilliwack, Loverboy, Kim Mitchell and Richard Marx, went on to shape Julian Lennon and Susan Aglukark. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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