Music History

• Credited
• with naming rock & roll

• “shake
• rattle and roll”

He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and their hit song "Rock Around the Clock".

• "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"
• RCA Victor
• "Hound Dog" made the cover version of Big mama Thornton's song.
• "That's Allright"
• "Mystery Train"
• "Don't be Cruel"

Influential to The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, Don McLean, and Bob Dylan,

• guitar solos
• "Maybellene" (1955),
• "Roll over Beethoven" (1956),
• "Rock and Roll Music" (1957)
• and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958),

"Tutti Frutti", "Long Tall Sally" and "Good Golly, Miss Molly"

Pianist remade " blue heaven"

known for popularizing the The Twist with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard's R&B hit "The Twist"

The originator of the "Wall of Sound"

Founder of Motown

• America's Band
• Leader Brian Wilson,
• Carl
• Dennis,
• Mike Love,
• Al Jardine

• ”Good Vibrations””Surin’Safari”

• John Lennon(rhythm guitar, vocals),
• Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals),
• George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and
• Ringo Starr(drums, vocals). “Please Please Me”

• “A Hard Day’s Night”

• “Yesterday”

• “Eleanor Rigby”

• America's Band
• Leader Brian Wilson,
• Carl
• Dennis,
• Mike Love,
• Al Jardine

• ”Good Vibrations””Surin’Safari”

• Brian Jones
• Ian Stewart
• Mick Jagger
• Keith Richards.
• “I Can’t get no Satisfaction”
• " Exile on Main Street" album

• The Godfather of Soul "the hardest working man in show business".
• "Say it loud I'm Black and I'm proud"
• "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag"

• Piano player
• "Genius of soul"
• -Gospel singing
• -Rock 'n' roll and
• -Rhythm & blues
• Used musicians to accompany him

• "Queen of soul"
• RESPECT

“like a rolling stone”

prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singerof Big Brother and the Holding Company

The fans of the Grateful Dead, some of whom followed the band from concert to concert for years, are known as "Deadheads" and are known for their dedication to the band's music

• Guitar hero greatest electric guitarist in the history of rock music
• Woodstock

• British Guitarists influenced by the blues recordings of Robert Johnson and B.B.King
• "Crossroads"

• Stage personae with every new album
• Pioneer of "glam rock"

• Songs about the complexities of love
• "All I want"
• "my old man"
• "carey"
• "little green"
• "the last time i saw richard"

• Dark side of the moon is based on the theme of madness and the things that drive us to it: Time, work, money war, and death
• The album stayed on the top billboard charts for over 14years.

Theme album that fused soul music and gospel influence with the political impetus of progressive rock

• Stairway to heaven- anthem of heavy metal music 8min long track. Had to purchase the album to own a copy of the song.
• Guitarist Jimmy Page
• Vocalist Robert plant
• Sold over 50 million records

• Americancountry singer songwriter,author, poet, actor andactivist. He reached his greatest fame during theoutlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains iconic,
• Waylon Jennings outlaws

widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited for helping spread both Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement to a worldwide audience.^[1] "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love" and, together with The Wailers, "Three Little Birds",^[2]

• Punk rock

• “I wanna be sedated”

The new wave musical style of Talking Heads combined elements of punk rock,avant-garde, pop, funk,world music and art rock. “Psycho killer”

• P-Funk. He was the mastermind of thebands Parliament andFunkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and began his work as a solo artist in 1981. He has been called one of the most prominent innovators of funk music,
• "Give up the funk"

considered to be the song that first popularized hip hop in the United States and around the world.

DJ made break-beats and mixed records credited with originating hip hop music, inthe Bronx, New York City. His playing of hard funk records of the sort typified by James Brown

Grandmaster Flash, is anAmerican hip hop musicianand DJ; one of the pioneers ofhip-hop DJing, cutting, andmixing.

song that talked about the hard times living in the black community and "hood"

• "Lady"
• had the best selling country album in the 80s

by Eurythmics made popular by Mtv music video

Tina Turner

heavy rotation on MTV

King of Pop started out with the jackson 5 went solo released Thriller in 1982 first black artist to be played on MTV and top selling album in history. Thriller is not a concept album.

• born in the U.S.A
• -Rebellious rock 'n' rollers
• -the socially conscious folk rockers

• Graceland is a truly "global" album form geographical point of view
• - Paul Simon brought a group from south Africa

Second biggest star next to Michael Jackson breakthrough single "Holiday" and her Album "Like a virgin"

sold over 40 million recordings Album "purple rain" and movie.

Co-founded in 1984 by Russel Simmons and Rick Rubin

• MC Run
• D.M.C
• DJ Jam Master Jay
• Adidas corporation signed a $1.5 million promotional deal

• Toured as the opening act for both Madonna and Run D.M.C
• Michael "Mike D"
• Diamond, Adam "MCA"
• Yauch, Adam "Ad-Rock"
• Horovitz.
• Beastie Boys began as ahardcore punk signed with def jam

Chuck D and hype man Flavor Flav

• Expressed the gangsta lifestyle saturated with images of sex and violence
• Ice cube
• Dr dre
• Eazy E