Original sentence: Based musically in Rolling Stones raunch and girl-group pop, the Dolls' basic musicianship made the Alice Cooper band sound like virtuosos, and indeed the band also caused some Sex Pistols-style controversy in their time.Elsewhere, American glam was largely a local scene, with no real mass breakthrough possible.In the States, the Alice Cooper group split in 1974, and vocalist Alice Cooper went solo with the recognizable name, continuing the theatrics and having hits through the rest of the decade, though they were more middle-of-the-road pop than glam rock.Kiss' music was closer to Heavy Metal than the majority of glam rock, and their lyrical themes largely revolved around (firmly heterosexual) sex.The New York Dolls split in 1975, with the most visible results being singer David Johansen's decidedly non-glam, basic rock  solo career.The greatest American commercial success belonged to Kiss, a four-piece New York band whose distinctive makeup and spectacular pyrotechnics at their live shows have become iconic.The most visible American glam artist was Alice Cooper, a five-piece band with a history of tranvestism, loud guitars and theatrical outrage based on themes of horror
Edited sentence: Based musically in Rolling Stones raunch and girl-group pop.In the United States, the New York Dolls split in 1975, with the most visible results being singer David Johansen's decidedly non-glam, basic rock  solo career