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Top Rock Songs Through the Years

The Top Rock Songs through the years consisted of a huge block of music spanning from the early doo wop and blues years of the 50's to the MTV generation of the 80's. In the 50's Chuck Berry and Elvis...

5 comments    the beatles elvis presley
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Top Music Hits - the 60's

Top Music Hits of the 60's was easily the most recognizable and downloaded segment of music in modern times. When the decade of the 50's came to a close there was a great change in popular music. Some of the...

13 comments    classic rock motown doo wop
Led Zeppelin69

Classic Rock And Roll Bands of the 1960s and 1970s

Led ZeppelinI would like everyone to think of the decades of the 1960s and 1970s as the Classic Rock Age. During the late 1960s a phenomenon referred to as the British Invasion hit the youth of the world like...

7 comments    music rock and roll classic rock
Brian at home in 196879

Who or What Killed Brian Jones

Just months before his death, Brian Jones received the following warning from an astrologer: "Be careful swimming in the coming year. Don't go into the water without a friend." Unfortunately, Brian didn't...

5 comments    arts rock and roll classic rock
The Beatles arrived in New York City on February 7, 1964 and the British Invasion began as they were excitedly welcomed.64

The Beatles

The term, “British Invasion", is used to describe the large amount of British rock and roll bands and musicians that came to America from 1964 to 1967. The British band that is probably most well-known and...

1 comment    entertainment music america
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Ray Davies - Songwriter Extraordinaire

Ray Davies wrote and is continuing to write some of the greatest rock/pop songs ever written. His huge back catalogue of songs shows a rock genius at work. He's influenced fellow British Invasion stalwarts...

2 comments    choir legendary british invasion
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Classic Rock Pt. 2

Yes, yes--here it is. Part two of the classic rock hub!  The final few bands on my favorites list. As I have said before, I had to narrow the list down quite a bit to fit it on a hub. Even using two hubs to...

32 comments    music songs band
With roots in western music, Orbison made the transition to pop legend through his early rockabilly music.72

Music Legend : Roy Orbison

With roots in western music, Orbison made the transition to pop legend through his early rockabilly music. While Texas lays claim to more than its fair share of musical talent, the cream of this abundant...

4 comments    the voice coping with loss
Thanks for memories guys64

The underrated bands of our time Part One- The Jam

   It Is 1977 and I am a Junior In high school . Everybody Is playing a band named Boston and every where I go I hear It a song called " More than a feeling " . I like It too . And Kiss , and Heart , and...

20 comments    fun music art
tom z profile image71

Origins of POPULAR music, part 2 ("The Big Generational LINE")

Not only were the 1960s important in the development of popular music, those same years (1960-1969) were important years in the cultural evolution of the United States of America as well. Since this is an...

0 comments    entertainment education music
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