Rock Music Timeline is an online chronology of the first fifty years of rock music history illustrated with vintage photographs of the musicians, key events, chart positions, hit singles and albums year by year.
Rock and Roll is characterized by a heavy beat and uncomplicated melodies. It first emerged as a fusion of rhythm and blues with country music. Common instruments used for Rock and Roll are the guitar, bass, and drums.View Video Only Save Timeline Video Quiz Course 33K views History ...
The Beatles and Elvis Presley, the two biggest names in rock history, meet for the only time at Presley's Los Angeles home. While there John Lennon boldly asks his idol why he doesn't record rock 'n' roll anymore. The first rock concert movie "The T.A.M.I. Show" is filmed in Sa...
Rock 'n' Roll Timeline from 1970 through 1979. More music styles emerged, Metal, Punk, Glam, Disco, Country Rock, Southern Rock, and the birth of Rap, and more.
and an after ‘Rock Around the Clock.’ The before is Glenn Miller, Perry Como, and Bing Crosby. The after is Elvis, the Beatles, and Lady Gaga.” Haley’s story provides some interesting rock `n roll history; it’s a story about changing music and changing culture – and also a sto...
Sadly, three months after playing one of the most blistering guitar solos in Rock & Roll history, session guitaristDanny Cedronedied June 17, 1954, after breaking his neck in a fall down a flight of stairs. He died not knowing the impact he left on Rock & Roll music or knowing how man...
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum marks 15 years in business next month, preceded by more than a decade of prehistory. Then came exhibits devoted to everyone from John Lennon to Bruce Springsteen, the return of Alan Freed and a couple of inductio
After 50 years of rocking and rolling all night and partying every day, the #1 Gold Record selling band of all time, KISS, shared their story of success before finally smashing their last guitar and extinguishing the fire-breathing demon. Stanley and Simmons, along with current members Thayer ...
Rock 'n' Roll Timeline 1877 to 1959 1970-1979 1877 Thomas Edison invents the phonograph. It had two diaphragm-and-needle units, one for recording, & one for playback. When he spoke into the mouthpiece, the sound vibrations were indented onto a metal cylinder with tin foil wrapped around ...
Rock 'n' Roll Timeline 1980 - 1989 1980 January 16 -Paul McCartney is arrested and jailed for 9 days after a half pound of marijuana is found in his luggage at the Tokyo airport. January 30 -New Orleans pianist Professor Longhair (Henry Roeland Byrd) (62), dies of a heart attack. ...