[151] Existing acts, some not usually considered central to the genre, also adopted glam styles, including Rod Stewart, Elton John, Queen and, for a time, even the Rolling Stones. New genres that emerged included progressive rock, which extended the artistic elements, glam rock, which highlighted showmanship and visual style, and the diverse and enduring subgenre of heavy metal, which emphasized volume, power, and speed. [151] While highly successful in the single charts in the UK, very few of these musicians were able to make a serious impact in the United States; Bowie was the major exception becoming an international superstar and prompting the adoption of glam styles among acts like Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, New York Dolls and Jobriath, often known as "glitter rock" and with a darker lyrical content than their British counterparts. [225] Although its more popular bands, particularly Blur and Oasis, were able to spread their commercial success overseas, especially to the United States, the movement had largely fallen apart by the end of the decade. [196] Members of Bauhaus and Joy Division explored new stylistic territory as Love and Rockets and New Order respectively.

1,627,091 listeners, The Beatles [104] The genre was continued in the 1970s by figures such as George Thorogood and Pat Travers,[100] but, particularly on the British scene (except perhaps for the advent of groups such as Status Quo and Foghat who moved towards a form of high energy and repetitive boogie rock), bands became focused on heavy metal innovation, and blues rock began to slip out of the mainstream. [226] From 1994, former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl's new band, the Foo Fighters, helped popularize the genre and define its parameters. [193] Some more traditional rock bands adapted to the video age and profited from MTV's airplay, most obviously Dire Straits, whose "Money for Nothing" gently poked fun at the station, despite the fact that it had helped make them international stars,[194] but in general, guitar-oriented rock was commercially eclipsed.
[163] It reached its commercial peak in the mid- to late 1970s with acts like Billy Joel, America and the reformed Fleetwood Mac, whose Rumours (1977) was the best-selling album of the decade.

[68], Surf music achieved its greatest commercial success as vocal music, particularly the work of the Beach Boys, formed in 1961 in Southern California. Rocker, an individual or band that performs rock music; Rockers, a variation of the one drop rhythm drumbeat in reggae music; Pocket Rockers, a brand of music player produced by Fisher-Price; Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media. [209] Important alternative rock bands of the 1980s in the US included R.E.M., Hüsker Dü, Jane's Addiction, Sonic Youth, and the Pixies,[209] and in the UK the Cure, New Order, the Jesus and Mary Chain, and the Smiths. Direkt zur Shout-Seite gehen. [138] In 1966 Bob Dylan went to Nashville to record the album Blonde on Blonde.

[121] The Moody Blues used a full orchestra on their album Days of Future Passed (1967) and subsequently created orchestral sounds with synthesizers. 1967 saw the Beatles release their definitive psychedelic statement in Sgt. and Staind, who were often classified as rap metal or nu metal, the first of which are the best-selling band of the genre. Bands like the Animals from Newcastle and Them from Belfast,[73] and particularly those from London like the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds, were much more directly influenced by rhythm and blues and later blues music. So they "did not provide viable templates for women's on-going participation in rock". Scott Holmes Clear Progress Inspiring & Upbeat Music Pop, Soundtrack, Indie-Rock. [219] Nevermind was more melodic than its predecessors, by signing to Geffen Records the band was one of the first to employ traditional corporate promotion and marketing mechanisms such as an MTV video, in store displays and the use of radio "consultants" who promoted airplay at major mainstream rock stations. [242], Hip hop had gained attention from rock acts in the early 1980s, including The Clash with "The Magnificent Seven" (1980) and Blondie with "Rapture" (1980). Particularly significant was the release of Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (Beano) album (1966), considered one of the seminal British blues recordings and the sound of which was much emulated in both Britain and the United States. [306] Out of the punk scene, the Goth and Emo subcultures grew, both of which presented distinctive visual styles. [196] Bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, the Cure, and the Sisters of Mercy, moved increasingly in this direction to found Gothic rock, which had become the basis of a major sub-culture by the early 1980s. [66], The instrumental rock and roll of performers such as Duane Eddy, Link Wray and the Ventures was developed by Dick Dale, who added distinctive "wet" reverb, rapid alternate picking, and Middle Eastern and Mexican influences. [248] Later in the decade this style, which contained a mix of grunge, punk, metal, rap and turntable scratching, spawned a wave of successful bands like Linkin Park, P.O.D. Punk quickly, though briefly, became a major cultural phenomenon in the United Kingdom.

Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country and western. [197] Similar emotional territory was pursued by Australian acts like the Birthday Party and Nick Cave. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. F.W. [179] They created fast, hard-edged music, typically with short songs, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. [120] With the advent of punk rock and technological changes in the late 1970s, progressive rock was increasingly dismissed as pretentious and overblown. There is basic agreement that rock “is a form of music with a strong beat,” but it is difficult to be much more explicit. [146] Musically diverse, varying between the simple rock and roll revivalism of figures like Alvin Stardust to the complex art rock of Roxy Music, and can be seen as much as a fashion as a musical subgenre. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. [176][177] From the 1990s there were increasing numbers of acts who attempted to avoid the Christian band label, preferring to be seen as groups who were also Christians, including P.O.D and Collective Soul. During the week of 4 April 1964, the Beatles held 12 positions on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, including the entire top five. Finde Titel, Künstler und Alben zum Thema rocker. According to Schaap and Berkers, "playing in a band is largely a male homosocial activity, that is, learning to play in a band is largely a peer-based ... experience, shaped by existing sex-segregated friendship networks. [120] The vibrant Canterbury scene saw acts following Soft Machine from psychedelia, through jazz influences, toward more expansive hard rock, including Caravan, Hatfield and the North, Gong, and National Health.
[279] There had been attempts to revive garage rock and elements of punk in the 1980s and 1990s and by 2000 scenes had grown up in several countries. In the '70s the powerful took over, as rock industrialists capitalized on the national mood to reduce potent music to an often reactionary species of entertainment—and to transmute rock's popular base from the audience to market. Rock music has also embodied and served as the vehicle for cultural and social movements, leading to major subcultures including mods and rockers in the UK and the hippie counterculture that spread out from San Francisco in the US in the 1960s. [157][158] He later released a series of four albums that all achieved gold status: Welcome, Borboletta, Amigos, and Festivál. [46], Commentators have traditionally perceived a decline of rock and roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s. [249] This paved the way for the success of existing bands like 24-7 Spyz and Living Colour, and new acts including Rage Against the Machine and Red Hot Chili Peppers, who all fused rock and hip hop among other influences. But like a lot of artificial concepts—money, say—the category does take on a reality of its own once people figure out how to put it to work. [180], By late 1976, acts such as the Ramones and Patti Smith, in New York City, and the Sex Pistols and the Clash, in London, were recognized as the vanguard of a new musical movement.