Monday, September 24, 2007

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The rock comes midway through the century in America. Considered synonymous with "twentieth century music, the rock loses the years that have distinctly Anglo in origin to become a universal language and subject to constant change.
With the emergence of a dramatically and developed initially as a mass phenomenon that disrupted the life and ideals of America can not be regarded as a strictly musical movement. Its roots are so pluralistic that summarizes the main branches of the so-called American popular music, especially blues, rhythm and blues, gospel and country and western.

The rock is in its deepest essence of African music, both was so black songwriter and bluesman Muddy Waters, (1915-1983), was considered "a son of rhythm and blues rock they called." Following this, many Americans claimed racist organizations with contempt and energy, according to their brochures and the abundant evidence of their leaders then, that rock music represented the "white man lowered the category of black."

slight synthesis of blues and rhythm and blues, as it was named for a long time, find his idol founding in the mid-fifties in the figure of Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley (1935-1977), although from the first recording blues in history ('Crazy Blues', a song sung by Mamie Smith in 1920) had spent nearly three decades.

Other key events in rock history were the "British invasion" of British music was present and, as would occur thereafter, show that since there would always be a step forward to what is created in the together.

Then the whole world rang to the sound of The Kinks, The Animals, The Who, The Zombies, The Shadows, The Hollies and, of course, with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, the two most important and influential bands in history rock. In

Therefore, in the United States would answer a few years later, when half of the last decade the acid rock and psychedelia would take over the scene and bring a new movement of rock, perhaps the most important and far-reaching social and cultural. That generation
include Jimi Hendrix (considered the best rock guitarist of all time), Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Jefferson Airplane, The greateful Dead, The Byrds, Country Joe & The Fish, and a number of groups mainly from the West Coast of the United States.





Elvis, the chosen


waiting
Fortune Elvis Aaron Presley, born in Tupelo, Mississippi, in January 1935. Belonged to a poor family in South American (white trash, 'white trash' to the heirs of slavery ideals of the Confederacy) which was established in Memphis in 1948, but in 1954 she was singing and recording Arthur Crudup issues and Bill Monroe, ranging from blues, gospel and rural country.
At that time the purpose of some record companies, with the decline of the country-the New Year, 1953 Hank Williams died, was in finding singers who express "white feelings" with strength, voices and black hearts, and Elvis was the featured artist at a time and enjoyed solo credit on as Jerry Lee Lewis, 'The Murderer' (1935), Carl Perkins (1932), Johnny Cash (1932), Roy Orbison (1936) and Chuck Berry (1931). Except Berry, Muddy Waters and supported by an independent label in Chicago, the other would agree to record his first work in 1955 with the Sun Records label, and thus was born the first legend of the five pioneers or in any case, in the words Jesus Ordovas, "the" five great artists of rock and roll. "

Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry (1955)


But Elvis, through participation in various shows mass Nashville in early 1956, clearly meaning country, could give up its status as a local hero who has the interest of a small audience but faithful, and skillfully, relying on his track 'Heartbreak Hotel', unusual in the context in which it presents, dazzle, mesmerize masses quinceañeras and rises to a victory that catapulted him within a few days at the top of the charts U.S..

Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley (1954)


With 'Heartbreak Hotel' explodes the phenomenon of teenagers (young fans aged between 13 and 19 years, figures in English end in teen), which will give boost to shy young singer from the lowest social strata, a few weeks turned into an idol of multitudes of young people who are embodied in it, working on vocals, dilettante gesture joker aggressive, bold and sensual as the live, the white rebel reaching the inalienable American dream succeed. In 1955 he died in car crash James Dean, film mythical embodiment of the rebellious and 'without cause'. Elvis Presley had a cause, rock, and transmitting nonconformity, rebellion and desire for youth.





Rock star



Between 1955 and 1958 Elvis's rise is unstoppable: it is a myth, an idol that yields good returns, for any of his songs, which do not comply with a unique style or defined, achieved impressive sales (already employed by Radio Corporation of America, RCA) and win the devotion of millions of people, inside and outside the country. The songs, the collective hysteria of his fans at concerts and thus the marketability, knocking at the doors of the movies, and movies (King Creole, The Jailhouse Rock) become a privileged way to enjoy spasmodic magnetism which is beginning to be called, to the detriment not only of Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Cash and Perkins, but talents are incorporated into the frenetic rhythms and unusual youth of these years (as Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Ritchie Valens, Johnny Burnette, among many others), the 'king of rock'. Elvis is not just a voice or an ability to drive the crowds wild with their daring moves, broadcast on television was banned, and so sweet and twisty tracks like 'Love Me Tender', 'Teddy Bear', 'Hound Dog', 'Jailhouse Rock 'and' King Creole ', is an image, the new-symbol of youth, the charisma of the "Great American", but nevertheless may fail to meet the country as a soldier.
Elvis is in 1958 when he joined the army to return home two years later and hobnob with myths of other generations and integrate into society of 'stars': Frank Sinatra, Ann Margret, James Brown, Ed Sullivan, and many U.S. personalities treated him like an equal. Elvis
folds thereafter, coinciding with a 'softening' of the lines of the rock, in a dynamic that will shoot three movies a year, recording some albums as increasing distance his public performances. Installed in his Memphis mansion, Graceland, will give concerts in Las Vegas.
It will take 10 years to produce his public reappearance, with the recording of 'In the Ghetto', which will put back in the top of lists of success. Similarly, on the rock scene momentous events have taken place towards which 'the King' is displayed outside for the comfort of your undisputed status of folk hero, crooner (Romantic crooner) and occasional nostalgic melodies of their religious childhood: the emergence of the music of the sixties, the emergence of Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Van Morrison, The Who, The Band, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Yardbirds, for example, will not reflect their influence beyond recognition generational, because according repeated expression of the time, "everyone had grown up with Elvis." After providing support for the harsh policy International Richard Nixon, U.S. president, and paid to work as a federal agent in the fight against drug trafficking in his country, called for weapons and board president in person, after being rejected the proposal by the FBI! - the Elvis Presley decline was unstoppable. Consumed by his addiction to drugs and alcohol, defeated by insomnia and depression, succumbed in the morning from 16 to 17 August 1977 in his Graceland estate.





The Beatles


Since early seventies, the most prominent factor in the rock scene lies in what has come to be called the 'British response', a term that encompasses the many ways in which English musicians took the glittering news from the United States.


The emergence of The Beatles in 1962, after several previous attempts to form a stable band, fueled by the restless John Winston Lennon (The Quarrymen had names like Johnny and the Moondogs or, 1956-1959, Long John and the Silver Beatles, 1960, Brothers and The Cavern Beat, 1961, and The Silver Beatles, 1962) who seconded on a regular basis Paul McCartney and George Harrison and less frequently bassist Stu Sutcliffe and drummer Pete Best, was the germ of the 'British rock revolution. " These young men from Liverpool made several tours of Scotland and Germany, recorded as a support group of second-class figures, to be found in Brian Epstein ideal and idyllic producer that will take your career to stardom.


I Want to Hold Your Hand - The Beatles (1963)



From that moment, guided by Epstein, with a powerful new drummer named Ringo Starr , recorded in two years more than 60 tracks. The starting point is 'Love Me Do', which sold over 10,000 copies. The next step will be the cinema, from the hand of director Richard Lester (What A Hard Day's Night, 1964 and Help!, 1965), in a tone very different from that characterized the populist variable and Elvis' career in this field. It is through movies and the so called "Beatlemania" that travels the world, that the sum of individuals that crystallizes the band is diversified: Lennon acts as leader following his brief but aggressive look shy and intellectual Harrison is the edgy, Overall, interest in the country and Orientalism, Ringo Starr is casual, a binge downloading their strength on stage, Paul McCartney, attracted by the recording industry, or perhaps fascinated-not hide his interest in composing standard themes, in line with the demands of teenagers, visible in the business listings. There are four very different worlds that will eventually take divergent paths.



The Long and Winding Road - The Beatles (1970)



All You Need Is Love - The Beatles (1967)



In 1964, the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg declared that "the universal conscience of mankind is now at Liverpool." The success of the four young British men dressed in black with characteristic fringe-appointed in 1965 knights of the Order of the British Empire, is absolute and overflows to the members of the band beyond 1966, when once they have succeeded in the together, perform together one last time in San Francisco and upstaged.



In 1967, after a period of intense Eastern doctrines and dedication to their first experiences with LSD, made in 'Revolver' a musical version of the Book of the Dead ("Tomorrow Never Knows") and published his famous 'Yellow Submarine', but in the very success of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which used electronic music in his compositions and singing lyrics emblematic ('Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' is the most famous of his compositions psychedelic), Epstein's death coincided with the outbreak of the differences and conflicts of the band undertaking a year after the adventure of producing Apple, designed to assist in different artistic fields (movies, clothes, music) revolution pop of the Beatles felt privileged carriers. Apple was closed in 1969, two years anticipating the final rupture of the components of the band, whose members undertook roads from 1971 alone, with varying success.


Paul McCartney & Wings - Live and Let Die (1973)




John Lennon - God (1970)




George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (The Concert for Bangladesh - 1971)







The Rolling Stones





The urge to print a radical change to forms of life, through the rock and roll, was demonstrated by the appearance on stage of The Rolling Stones, named after a Muddy Waters theme. Appeared in public on July 12, 1962 at the Marquee in London when its members were still unsafe training. Represented among the small circles that were developing in their principles, the British hope of British rhythm and blues and white and quickly achieved celebrity as a harsh response from the marginality of Beatlemania. The Rolling Stones
is a British musical group Rock and Roll, who along with The Beatles helped spearhead the British Invasion occurred in the first 60. Formed in London in 1962 by Brian Jones, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the group began playing Blues, R & B and Rock and Roll and later experimented with other genres including Country, Psychedelic Rock, Reggae and Disco.


stand out, mainly, its simple melodies and simple structures, where not many chords including songs too raw and filled with sex, drugs and some of misogyny at the expense of the influence of "progressive" at the time. They are also known popularly as their Satanic Majesties, because of their 1967 album entitled Their Satanic Majesties Request, and although the album was a relative failure, this motto will stay forever.

Sweet Virginia - The Rolling Stones (1972)



But it was through the propaganda of the British media about a possible rivalry with the Beatles and a whole album through Aftermath (1966) where he achieved recognition. From next year starts the black legend of the Stones, with the arrests of Jones, Jagger and Richards charged with possession of narcotics. At the time when you edit Beggar's Banquet, Jones left the band: de1969 is June and after a month would find his body in the pool at his private residence. In the same year there are other incidents during the tour that the band embarks on the United States, highlighting the tragedy Altamont (California) where as Jagger sings his controversial track 'Sympathy for Devil', a member of the Security Service of the concert, part of the biker gang Hell's Angels, a spectator stabs exalted, who would die of wounds .
The removal of the Stones on the public would last for years, even if not stop edit albums: the worldwide fame that would design the emblem of the band by Andy Warhol at the expense of the bulging lips of Jagger, Sticky Fingers (1970). Other key albums in the extensive discography of the band, at about fifty official album, are: Exile on Main Street (1972), It's Only Rock and Roll (1974), Some Girls (1976), Black and Blue (1976), Tattoo You (1981), Dirty Work (1986) and Voodoo Lunge (1995).




Other current




Since the late sixties rock has continued to provide alternatives and current news about the pioneers, to the extent that it impossible to list and lost critical force approach by which a style is identified based on a dominant influence over a period of time. This does not is in contradiction with the fact that, often for tragic paths, rock has produced a gallery of myths whose influence is felt as a fundamental reference point, such as to evoke the figure of Bessie Smith, Jimi Hendrix's guitar , Keith Moon of The Who, John Bonham, Led Zeppelin, Bon Scott of AC / DC, Jim Morrison of The Doors, Freddie Mercury, Queen, Ian Curtis of Joy Division, Phil Lynott, Thin Lizzy, Steve Clark of Def Leppard, Johnny Thunders, The Heartbreakers, former Beatle John Lennon, Sid Vicious, the Sex Pistols, among many others. But as that has spanned the history of rock, have increased their shapes and orientations, very often through commercial devices, the recovery of ancient essences, the reprocessing of old sounds and expanding areas of activity of the bands.


Light My Fire - The Doors (1967)



If the rock is defined, especially in the United States, such as music festivals, the generational entertainment or social gatherings of youth, this concept varies dramatically in the decades when it reaches areas such as political commitment, as in the country, in punk rock, in some derivations of folk rock, ska movement, urban rock, rap or rock metal, plastic experimentalism, as is common in the glam rock, symphonic rock, electronic music, neo-romantic pop , disco music or new age, high technology, as in the current tougher techno pop, progressive rock, the rock called "artistic", jazz rock fusion, the various formulas held in the music synths and consumer rock, reinforced by the aesthetic of the video clip and a tendency, still shy but they have begun to develop various ideas artists John Cale, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, towards interactivity.

Bluetooth, Multiple Audio Headsets




The rock comes midway through the century in America. Considered synonymous with "twentieth century music, the rock loses the years that have distinctly Anglo in origin to become a universal language and subject to constant change.
With the emergence of a dramatically and developed initially as a mass phenomenon that disrupted the life and ideals of America can not be regarded as a strictly musical movement. Its roots are so pluralistic that summarizes the main branches of the so-called American popular music, especially blues, rhythm and blues, gospel and country and western.

The rock is in its deepest essence of African music, both was so black songwriter and bluesman Muddy Waters, (1915-1983), was considered "a son of rhythm and blues rock they called." Following this, many Americans claimed racist organizations with contempt and energy, according to their brochures and the abundant evidence of their leaders then, that rock music represented the "white man lowered the category of black."

slight synthesis of blues and rhythm and blues, as it was named for a long time, find his idol founding in the mid-fifties in the figure of Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley (1935-1977), although from the first recording blues in history ('Crazy Blues', a song sung by Mamie Smith in 1920) had spent nearly three decades.

Other key events in rock history were the "British invasion" of British music was present and, as would occur thereafter, show that since there would always be a step forward to what is created in the together.

Then the whole world rang to the sound of The Kinks, The Animals, The Who, The Zombies, The Shadows, The Hollies and, of course, with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, the two most important and influential bands in history rock. In

Therefore, in the United States would answer a few years later, when half of the last decade the acid rock and psychedelia would take over the scene and bring a new movement of rock, perhaps the most important and far-reaching social and cultural. That generation
include Jimi Hendrix (considered the best rock guitarist of all time), Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Jefferson Airplane, The greateful Dead, The Byrds, Country Joe & The Fish, and a number of groups mainly from the West Coast of the United States.





Elvis, the chosen


waiting
Fortune Elvis Aaron Presley, born in Tupelo, Mississippi, in January 1935. Belonged to a poor family in South American (white trash, 'white trash' to the heirs of slavery ideals of the Confederacy) which was established in Memphis in 1948, but in 1954 she was singing and recording Arthur Crudup issues and Bill Monroe, ranging from blues, gospel and rural country.
At that time the purpose of some record companies, with the decline of the country-the New Year, 1953 Hank Williams died, was in finding singers who express "white feelings" with strength, voices and black hearts, and Elvis was the featured artist at a time and enjoyed solo credit on as Jerry Lee Lewis, 'The Murderer' (1935), Carl Perkins (1932), Johnny Cash (1932), Roy Orbison (1936) and Chuck Berry (1931). Except Berry, Muddy Waters and supported by an independent label in Chicago, the other would agree to record his first work in 1955 with the Sun Records label, and thus was born the first legend of the five pioneers or in any case, in the words Jesus Ordovas, "the" five great artists of rock and roll. "

Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry (1955)


But Elvis, through participation in various shows mass Nashville in early 1956, clearly meaning country, could give up its status as a local hero who has the interest of a small audience but faithful, and skillfully, relying on his track 'Heartbreak Hotel', unusual in the context in which it presents, dazzle, mesmerize masses quinceañeras and rises to a victory that catapulted him within a few days at the top of the charts U.S..

Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley (1954)


With 'Heartbreak Hotel' explodes the phenomenon of teenagers (young fans aged between 13 and 19 years, figures in English end in teen), which will give boost to shy young singer from the lowest social strata, a few weeks turned into an idol of multitudes of young people who are embodied in it, working on vocals, dilettante gesture joker aggressive, bold and sensual as the live, the white rebel reaching the inalienable American dream succeed. In 1955 he died in car crash James Dean, film mythical embodiment of the rebellious and 'without cause'. Elvis Presley had a cause, rock, and transmitting nonconformity, rebellion and desire for youth.





Rock star



Between 1955 and 1958 Elvis's rise is unstoppable: it is a myth, an idol that yields good returns, for any of his songs, which do not comply with a unique style or defined, achieved impressive sales (already employed by Radio Corporation of America, RCA) and win the devotion of millions of people, inside and outside the country. The songs, the collective hysteria of his fans at concerts and thus the marketability, knocking at the doors of the movies, and movies (King Creole, The Jailhouse Rock) become a privileged way to enjoy spasmodic magnetism which is beginning to be called, to the detriment not only of Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Cash and Perkins, but talents are incorporated into the frenetic rhythms and unusual youth of these years (as Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Ritchie Valens, Johnny Burnette, among many others), the 'king of rock'. Elvis is not just a voice or an ability to drive the crowds wild with their daring moves, broadcast on television was banned, and so sweet and twisty tracks like 'Love Me Tender', 'Teddy Bear', 'Hound Dog', 'Jailhouse Rock 'and' King Creole ', is an image, the new-symbol of youth, the charisma of the "Great American", but nevertheless may fail to meet the country as a soldier.
Elvis is in 1958 when he joined the army to return home two years later and hobnob with myths of other generations and integrate into society of 'stars': Frank Sinatra, Ann Margret, James Brown, Ed Sullivan, and many U.S. personalities treated him like an equal. Elvis
folds thereafter, coinciding with a 'softening' of the lines of the rock, in a dynamic that will shoot three movies a year, recording some albums as increasing distance his public performances. Installed in his Memphis mansion, Graceland, will give concerts in Las Vegas.
It will take 10 years to produce his public reappearance, with the recording of 'In the Ghetto', which will put back in the top of lists of success. Similarly, on the rock scene momentous events have taken place towards which 'the King' is displayed outside for the comfort of your undisputed status of folk hero, crooner (Romantic crooner) and occasional nostalgic melodies of their religious childhood: the emergence of the music of the sixties, the emergence of Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Van Morrison, The Who, The Band, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Yardbirds, for example, will not reflect their influence beyond recognition generational, because according repeated expression of the time, "everyone had grown up with Elvis." After providing support for the harsh policy International Richard Nixon, U.S. president, and paid to work as a federal agent in the fight against drug trafficking in his country, called for weapons and board president in person, after being rejected the proposal by the FBI! - the Elvis Presley decline was unstoppable. Consumed by his addiction to drugs and alcohol, defeated by insomnia and depression, succumbed in the morning from 16 to 17 August 1977 in his Graceland estate.





The Beatles


Since early seventies, the most prominent factor in the rock scene lies in what has come to be called the 'British response', a term that encompasses the many ways in which English musicians took the glittering news from the United States.


The emergence of The Beatles in 1962, after several previous attempts to form a stable band, fueled by the restless John Winston Lennon (The Quarrymen had names like Johnny and the Moondogs or, 1956-1959, Long John and the Silver Beatles, 1960, Brothers and The Cavern Beat, 1961, and The Silver Beatles, 1962) who seconded on a regular basis Paul McCartney and George Harrison and less frequently bassist Stu Sutcliffe and drummer Pete Best, was the germ of the 'British rock revolution. " These young men from Liverpool made several tours of Scotland and Germany, recorded as a support group of second-class figures, to be found in Brian Epstein ideal and idyllic producer that will take your career to stardom.


I Want to Hold Your Hand - The Beatles (1963)



From that moment, guided by Epstein, with a powerful new drummer named Ringo Starr , recorded in two years more than 60 tracks. The starting point is 'Love Me Do', which sold over 10,000 copies. The next step will be the cinema, from the hand of director Richard Lester (What A Hard Day's Night, 1964 and Help!, 1965), in a tone very different from that characterized the populist variable and Elvis' career in this field. It is through movies and the so called "Beatlemania" that travels the world, that the sum of individuals that crystallizes the band is diversified: Lennon acts as leader following his brief but aggressive look shy and intellectual Harrison is the edgy, Overall, interest in the country and Orientalism, Ringo Starr is casual, a binge downloading their strength on stage, Paul McCartney, attracted by the recording industry, or perhaps fascinated-not hide his interest in composing standard themes, in line with the demands of teenagers, visible in the business listings. There are four very different worlds that will eventually take divergent paths.



The Long and Winding Road - The Beatles (1970)



All You Need Is Love - The Beatles (1967)



In 1964, the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg declared that "the universal conscience of mankind is now at Liverpool." The success of the four young British men dressed in black with characteristic fringe-appointed in 1965 knights of the Order of the British Empire, is absolute and overflows to the members of the band beyond 1966, when once they have succeeded in the together, perform together one last time in San Francisco and upstaged.



In 1967, after a period of intense Eastern doctrines and dedication to their first experiences with LSD, made in 'Revolver' a musical version of the Book of the Dead ("Tomorrow Never Knows") and published his famous 'Yellow Submarine', but in the very success of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which used electronic music in his compositions and singing lyrics emblematic ('Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' is the most famous of his compositions psychedelic), Epstein's death coincided with the outbreak of the differences and conflicts of the band undertaking a year after the adventure of producing Apple, designed to assist in different artistic fields (movies, clothes, music) revolution pop of the Beatles felt privileged carriers. Apple was closed in 1969, two years anticipating the final rupture of the components of the band, whose members undertook roads from 1971 alone, with varying success.


Paul McCartney & Wings - Live and Let Die (1973)




John Lennon - God (1970)




George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (The Concert for Bangladesh - 1971)







The Rolling Stones





The urge to print a radical change to forms of life, through the rock and roll, was demonstrated by the appearance on stage of The Rolling Stones, named after a Muddy Waters theme. Appeared in public on July 12, 1962 at the Marquee in London when its members were still unsafe training. Represented among the small circles that were developing in their principles, the British hope of British rhythm and blues and white and quickly achieved celebrity as a harsh response from the marginality of Beatlemania. The Rolling Stones
is a British musical group Rock and Roll, who along with The Beatles helped spearhead the British Invasion occurred in the first 60. Formed in London in 1962 by Brian Jones, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the group began playing Blues, R & B and Rock and Roll and later experimented with other genres including Country, Psychedelic Rock, Reggae and Disco.


stand out, mainly, its simple melodies and simple structures, where not many chords including songs too raw and filled with sex, drugs and some of misogyny at the expense of the influence of "progressive" at the time. They are also known popularly as their Satanic Majesties, because of their 1967 album entitled Their Satanic Majesties Request, and although the album was a relative failure, this motto will stay forever.

Sweet Virginia - The Rolling Stones (1972)



But it was through the propaganda of the British media about a possible rivalry with the Beatles and a whole album through Aftermath (1966) where he achieved recognition. From next year starts the black legend of the Stones, with the arrests of Jones, Jagger and Richards charged with possession of narcotics. At the time when you edit Beggar's Banquet, Jones left the band: de1969 is June and after a month would find his body in the pool at his private residence. In the same year there are other incidents during the tour that the band embarks on the United States, highlighting the tragedy Altamont (California) where as Jagger sings his controversial track 'Sympathy for Devil', a member of the Security Service of the concert, part of the biker gang Hell's Angels, a spectator stabs exalted, who would die of wounds .
The removal of the Stones on the public would last for years, even if not stop edit albums: the worldwide fame that would design the emblem of the band by Andy Warhol at the expense of the bulging lips of Jagger, Sticky Fingers (1970). Other key albums in the extensive discography of the band, at about fifty official album, are: Exile on Main Street (1972), It's Only Rock and Roll (1974), Some Girls (1976), Black and Blue (1976), Tattoo You (1981), Dirty Work (1986) and Voodoo Lunge (1995).




Other current




Since the late sixties rock has continued to provide alternatives and current news about the pioneers, to the extent that it impossible to list and lost critical force approach by which a style is identified based on a dominant influence over a period of time. This does not is in contradiction with the fact that, often for tragic paths, rock has produced a gallery of myths whose influence is felt as a fundamental reference point, such as to evoke the figure of Bessie Smith, Jimi Hendrix's guitar , Keith Moon of The Who, John Bonham, Led Zeppelin, Bon Scott of AC / DC, Jim Morrison of The Doors, Freddie Mercury, Queen, Ian Curtis of Joy Division, Phil Lynott, Thin Lizzy, Steve Clark of Def Leppard, Johnny Thunders, The Heartbreakers, former Beatle John Lennon, Sid Vicious, the Sex Pistols, among many others. But as that has spanned the history of rock, have increased their shapes and orientations, very often through commercial devices, the recovery of ancient essences, the reprocessing of old sounds and expanding areas of activity of the bands.


Light My Fire - The Doors (1967)



If the rock is defined, especially in the United States, such as music festivals, the generational entertainment or social gatherings of youth, this concept varies dramatically in the decades when it reaches areas such as political commitment, as in the country, in punk rock, in some derivations of folk rock, ska movement, urban rock, rap or rock metal, plastic experimentalism, as is common in the glam rock, symphonic rock, electronic music, neo-romantic pop , disco music or new age, high technology, as in the current tougher techno pop, progressive rock, the rock called "artistic", jazz rock fusion, the various formulas held in the music synths and consumer rock, reinforced by the aesthetic of the video clip and a tendency, still shy but they have begun to develop various ideas artists John Cale, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, towards interactivity.