6 Bands That Expanded Rock Music

After the pioneers of the classic rock n’ roll made their ways to greatness in the 50’s, they made the path for hard rock bands to blossom. Many hard rock bands were founded in the early 60s, and most of them went on on looking for new sounds, new riffs, and new drums patterns which led to the early forms of hard rock. This innovation had also taken its way into the recreation of 'em old blues tunes.

The famous Hard Rock band was founded in 1969. They picked up the band’s name from the Bob Dylan song, “The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest”. After 11 years since the band was founded, they released their legendary album “British Steel” that includes their two hits “Breaking The Law” and “Living After Midnight”, the album quickly made 500,000 copies sells in the United States. This famous album didn’t contain cover songs like their previous releases. Rob Halford, Glen Tipton and K.K. Downing composed all the tracks that were unique and went famous.

The amazing guitarist, Alvin Lee, founded the band in 1966. As the lead singer and the lead guitarist, he composed original songs with a distinguished guitar playing style. Their amazing performance at the Woodstock festival remains historical and unforgettable, and got them more fame. Their songs represent rock music in pure fashion. They wrote many hit songs such as "Love Like a Man". The song is well known for its awesome-sounding riff, and the killing solo Alvin Lee improvises within a jazzy concept.

The famous, high-energy band was founded in 1970. It gathered four talented musicians with endless creative ideas that gave life to a lot of hit songs. With their energetic and sharp performances on stage, Queen became one of the most popular band, and their songs gained large popularity. Almost the whole world can sing along with their greatest hit “We Will Rock You”.

The stones are often called "the world's greatest rock and roll band”. Since their debut in 1962, The Stones are always touring. They had and audience of 1,500,000 people during their splendid concert at the Copacabana Beach Show in 2006. They led the U.S. Top 10 many times with many of their songs. Their famous song “Satisfaction” was a worldwide Number 1 hit in 1965. It was an introduction to the world of riffs, fuzz, and abstract lyrics.

When we talk about the most famous riff in the world we talk about the killing song “Smoke on the Water”, and when we mention this song we all know that we are talking about Deep Purple. Everybody know the song’s riff even if they don’t know who Deep Purple are. The band was founded in 1968. They wrote many of the most memorable hard rock songs of all time, “Black Night”, “Speed King”, “Perfect Strangers”, “Highway Star”… All the members were perfectly formed, and all together, they offered a unique musical world that is so vast to explore. Signature riffs, solos, and melodies, Deep purple transformed the directions of hard rock and drew the path for metal music to run on after.

Led Zeppelin are one of the most influential bands in music history. The British band was formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page that is considered one of the greatest guitar players of all time due to his creative riffs, amazing solos, and neat coordination. Led Zeppelin made commercial successes with every album they produced, From “Led Zeppelin I” to “In through the Out Door”. They extended the library of rock music with different great songs. They are well-known for many unforgettable songs such as “Stairway to Heaven”, “Heartbreaker”, “Black Dog”, and “Whole Lotta Love”. The band would have given more amazing live performances and powerful productions if they hadn’t broken up in 1980 after the death of John Bonham, the band’s drummer.

The outburst of bands in the late 60s was very huge. And not all the bands could preserve their commercial success to this day. Yet sure they are still referential to the history of rock music and its expansion, and offered tunes that are still remembered to this day.