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1 day ago · Many of Billy Idol's musical influences came from the 1950s, and while his band Generation X had certainly made a lot of noise in the midst of the UK punk explosion of the 1970s, he was more ...
1 day ago · Elwood was the lead singer of a garage band in the 1960s. “The band was called The Lonely Things. We put out a record, a 45,” he said. The band lasted two years, then broke up as musicians headed off to the Vietnam War, including Elwood, in 1969. He was an Air Force fire and protection specialist in DaNang, Vietnam, from 1969 to 1970.
1 hour ago · Jazz Origins. The history of jazz music is deeply linked to and embedded with the history of New Orleans. As ragtime and the blues began to circulate, New Orleans incubated music that would come to be called jazz, and the unique social construction of the city provided a cadre of musicians as well as an audience to support and sustain a particular form of musical expression.
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1 day ago · ABBA ( / ˈæbə / AB-ə, Swedish: [ˈâbːa]; formerly named Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid or Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida) are a Swedish pop supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The group's name is an acronym of the first letters of their first names ...
1 day ago · Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. [3] It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the ...
3 hours ago · He also co-starred with Kirk Douglas in A Gunfight (1970), wrote music for the movie Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970), and published the best-selling autobiography Man in Black in 1975.
1 day ago · Honestly, you take The Beatles away from the 1960's pop/rock scene and it would no doubt be different. You may have not gotten the British Invasion, folk rock answer to The British Invasion, Pet Sounds, and so many others. Like it or not The Beatles also had a profound impact on how music was recorded, digested and where it was played.
