The History of Rock Music

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Best of Rock Music

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Led Zeppelin

• Jimmy Paige, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and
  John Bonham revolutionized rock and roll music in
  the late 60s and early 70s. With face melting
  guitar solos by Jimmy Paige, thumping blues bass
  riffs of Jones, the shrill piercing voice of
  Plant, and backing drums of Bonham, Led Zeppelin
  experimented the full range of what rock and roll
  music could be. Perhaps the best all time rock
  and roll group, Zeppelin put out nine full length
  albums in just over a ten year period.

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The Doors

• Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and
  John Densmore helped pioneer the psychedelic rock
  movement of the early 60s. Forming in 1965 in
  Los Angeles, Jim Morrisons vocal stylings pushed
  The Doors into the spotlight, his dominating,
  wailing voice and insane stage antics championing
  their live performances. The Doors were once of
  the first rock and roll bands of the 60s to
  experiment with keyboards and synthesizers as an
  instrumental part of their sound. Unfortunately
  The Doors tenure was cut short by the death of
  Jim Morrison at the age of 27

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience

• Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding, and Mitch Mitchell
  formed one of the first great Brit psychedelic
  rock bands of the 60s (the Beatles and Stones
  dont truly fall under this category). Jimi
  Hendrix might be held as one the greatest
  guitarist of all time. A natural lefty who
  filliped his guitar over to play it right handed
  as lefty reinvented some of the ways people
  thought about playing the guitar. The Jimi
  Hendrix Experience was one of the first bands to
  execute the power trio of guitar, bass, and
  drums.

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The Rolling Stones

• Mick Jagger and Keith Richards make up the bulk
  of the Rolling Stones, followed by other past
  musicians and musicians they currently tour with,
  Jagger and Richards are accredited with a
  majority of the creative genius of the Stones.
  The Rolling Stones were one of the first stadium
  rock bands to pack full houses of sports
  stadiums and actually have a great sound while
  doing it. The Stones blue MM rider became
  something of famous legend, in which the rider
  was placed to ensure the venues cared enough
  about their music to get even the tiniest details
  correct before they would go out and perform.

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Pink Floyd

• Originally Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters,
  and Richard Wright, Pink Floyd added David
  Gilmour after Barretts mental breakdown from
  drug abuse. The British psychedelic rock band
  became famous for more progressive rock stylings,
  as well, Pink Floyd was one of the first rock
  bands to conceptualize their albums as one piece
  of art. All the songs on each album would lend
  themselves to a higher theme or idea, making
  their albums The Dark Side of the Moon, Animals,
  Wish You Were Here, and The Wall massively
  popular in the 70s.

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Queen

• Arguably one of the best stadium rock bands of
  all time, Queens ability to control audiences is
  legendary. Freddie Mercury, Brian May, John
  Deacon, and Roger Taylor formed in 1970 in
  London. A true rock band of the time, Queen
  rarely broke from rock and roll into psychedelic
  or other types of rock music, but Mercurys voice
  powered them into the stratosphere of fame. Songs
  like Bohemian Rhapsody, We Are the Champions,
  and We Will Rock You became anthems for
  generations following Mercurys death.

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Nirvana

• Nirvana championed the 90s punk rock movement.
  The Washington trio of Kurt Cobain, Krist
  Novoselic, and Dave Grohl immortalized the punk
  rock aesthetic of loud, in your face grunge rock
  music. They destroyed how people thought about
  rock and roll music in the 90s, they played a
  harder more visceral type of rock and roll most
  had never heard before. Accompanied with
  brilliantly dark lyricism from Kurt Cobain, the
  groups second major album Nevermind brought them
  unimaginable stardom, which ultimately drove Kurt
  to suicide at the age of 27.

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The Who

• One of the earlier bands of the British rock
  invasion consisting of Roger Daltrey, Pete
  Townshend, John Entwistle, and Kieth Moon, The
  Who became famous for a more mainstream type of
  rock and roll. Some critics now deem some of The
  Whos music as hard rock or power pop, the band
  became famous for their classic guitar licks and
  power ballads.

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The Beatles

• Last but certainly not least, the arguably most
  influential band of all rock and roll, and
  perhaps the band that started rock and roll The
  Beatles. Britain's first rock band consisted of
  John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and
  George Harrison. The evolution of sound the
  Beatles produced was unheard of, from where they
  started to where they ended, with the amount of
  music they produced, a group such as the Beatles
  will never be heard of again. They transformed
  the genre of rock and roll music from early pop
  rock beginnings to the psychedelic
  transformations in the Sgt. Peppers Lonely
  Hearts Club Band and The Beatles (White Album).
  In only a mere ten year span, the Beatles put out
  12 full length albums and a plethora of
  unreleased music still hangs around in the
  vaults.

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