Rock and Roll

By Yazmin23

  • British Invasion

    The Beatles made their American debut in 1964 on The Ed Sullivan Show, a variety show that ran from 1948 to 1971. An appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show usually guatanteed a successful carrer.
    The Beatles is a very great gurpo that every single person lisent ot them teenager, old people. Beatles has become popular for them music that can relax us and we can lisent during class or when we are doing our homework.
    The band considered John Lennon one of the greatess person who can play the bas good

  • How did Rock and Roll begin

    http://www.ehow.com/about_6637837_did-rock-roll-music-begin_.htmlDid you know that Rock and Roll music didn't even exist until 1950s? In 1954, a band called billy Haley and the Comets launched a smash hit called Rock Around The Clock. This is often referred to as the beginning of Rock and Roll. Haley's song rose to number 1 in 1955 when it was included as a soundtrack of Blackboard Jungle, a movie about juvenille delinquents, with Bill Haley portraying a young rebelt.

  • The King of Rock and roll

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_PresleyBy 1956-57, Elvis had became a national star and teen idol. He sang in prime time television shows, debuted on popular local radio station and performed wiith unprecedented riot-filled succes. His first movie called Love Me Tender made a million dollars within three days of being launched. All of his singles in that year went "gold" and included hits such as Heartbreak Hotel, Blue Suede Shoes, Hound Dog, My Baby Left Me, Love Me Tender , Jailhouse Rock and Hound Dog.

  • The Day The Music Died

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_DiedA small charter plane took off from an airport in lowa, USA. On board, on their way to a scheduled tour destination, were three of the 1950's great American Rock and Roll stars, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper. Tragically, the plane crashed soon after take off, leaving no survivors.

  • Surf

    There are basically three styles of surf music. The first is the purely instrumental style, made up of both lead and rhythm guitar, bass and drum set. The use of the Whammy Bar and Reverb created the effects that became synonymous with the surf sound. The Distortion technique that became increasingly popular in heavy metal and grunge music had no place in the smooth, easy-going surf style.

  • Woodstock

    http://www.woodstock.com/themusic.phpWhen 400,000 people converged on a dairy farm in rural New York for a three day festival of "love and music" in 1969, they had no idea that they were creating history. Many of the most popular musicians of the day came together to create what would become one of the mos successful musical events in history.

  • Solo Artists

    Billy is one of the most fun artists that can be fun with his audience when he's with them. He has his only kind of music unique that everyone con lisent everwhere.And he's very reconized because he can play the piano very good, and has been in tour with alot of artist that want him to play the piano on their songs. John began his carrer un 1961 with a band called Bluesology.

  • Disco

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiscoDisco is style of dance music that was popular from the early 1970s until the mid 1980s. It was influenced mostly by funk and soul music, and is well known from its rich and caried instrumentation. A disco song mauy include percussion, bass, keyboar, horns, woodwinds, and even orchestral strings.

  • Pop

    Michael Jackson usered in the golden age of pop music in the 1980s. His album "Thriller" is still the best-selling album of all time. Pop can be different genres of music and therefore the sound of pop music has changed over time, depending on what else is popular. The pop music is the mos popular in this time the teenagers lisent more to pop music than anything, so they can relax or even being romantic.

  • Dance Music

    The Dance Music of the 1980s was really an evolution of the disco music genre of the 1970s. It developed purely for the nighclub scene, and was designed to be used by a DJ, with each song flowing directly into the next. Dance music can also be dance with a parner like dancing love song or also you can dance it by your self and you can dance it however you want.

  • One Hit Wonders

    One Hit Wonders are typically artists who produced a hit song that either makes the Billboard lists, or gets played frequently on MTV, VH1, or the radio. This craze lasted about ten years and produced many One Hit Wonders. But as its popularity faded quickly, it left a host of One Hit Wonders drifting back into obscurity before they could replicate their success. They make song for other people and they get grammys because the song was popular.