Stevie Ray Vaughan's nexus-point style of playing – part Jimi Hendrix, part jazz, part Albert King – would have made him a star in any era. Coming of age as he did in the '80s, however, put him in a unique position. He was able to revive interest in the blues as he reacquaint...
EB:When I got pissed [drunk] enough and got up enough courage to stagger to the front row and clutch at [blues artist] Mighty Joe Young’s pants leg and get up on stage. I was walking down the street one day and there was a Methodist youth club on the top of the hill and I he...
* Eric Clapton--Without downgrading the importance of the Yardbirds and Cream, both of which made an immense contribution to rock in the mid-’60s by demonstrating the liberating qualities of sheer instrumental power, Clapton has had an even more distinguished career since he left those groups, ...
Mid-1960s British bands such asCream, theYardbirds, and theJeff BeckGroup, along withJimi Hendrix, are generally credited with developing the heavier drums,bass, and distortedguitarsounds thatdifferentiateheavy metal from other blues-based rock. The new sound was codified in the 1970s byLed Zeppe...
The Beatles were a British musical quartet of enduring popularity that dominated rock and roll music in the 1960s. The band’s immortal hit songs include ‘Please Please Me,’‘Help!,’‘Yesterday,’‘Yellow Submarine,’‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamond
The Jonas Brothers then opened for Cyrus on her “Best of Both Worlds” tour. Their music videos became Disney Channel staples, and they starred in a reality program, Jonas Brothers: Living the Dream, but their real breakthrough followed their appearance in the Disney movie musical Camp Rock,...
The Tragically Hip, a rock band from Kingston, Ontario, was the most consistently successful Canadian recording and touring group of the 1990s, filling arenas and headlining festivals. They boasted more number-one records in Canada than any other domesti
Aerosmith, American heavy metal band. One of the biggest arena-rock attractions of the late 1970s, Aerosmith became even more popular with its career revival that began in the mid-1980s. The band’s songs included ‘Walk This Way,’‘Livin’ on the Edge
Black Sabbath, British band whose bludgeoning brand of rock defined heavy metal in the 1970s. Their songs ‘Paranoid,’‘Iron Man,’ and ‘War Pigs’ became metal classics, and by the end of the decade they had become the standard against which metal ba