History of Famous Rock Artists
Rock and Roll of the 60s through the 80s Rock and Roll of the 50's continued its trend into the 60's as North America was introduced to the British invasion.
The British band From Liverpool England, "The Beatles" was the most visible of the many British music acts that found success in America.
Hundreds came to see the Fab Four's landing at La Guardia airport on February 7, 1964.
Their performance came a week later on the Ed Sullivan Show.
As the official beginning of what came to be called the "British Invasion.
" The Beatles were hugely popular; at one point they had the top five records on the Billboard Hot 100 list.
Today, kids sing along with pop tunes on the radio and sing their favorite Beatles tunes such as "A Hard Day's Night," "She Loves You", "Can't Buy Me Love" which were included in the hit albums "Meet the Beatles", "Abbey Road", and "The White Album".
1969 saw the important rock festival "Woodstock".
In August, the hippies were able to organize and run a 450,000-person three-day festival with few major problems.
In retrospect, it's overwhelmed facilities (only 200,000 had been expected) and lousy weather were a symbol that Woodstock was in reality the end of an era.
The Woodstock festival included 33 bands such as Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Santana, Credence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix, who ended the Festival with his hit song "Band of Gypsys".
The 1980s music was led by artists like Duran Duran, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince, and Whitney Houston.
Heavy Metal rock artists such as Judas Priest and Black Sabbath moved a little more mainstream with the likes of Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, and Poison.
Music television was heavily influenced by a fledgling music television network called MTV.
Michael Jackson's popular videos for songs like "Billy Jean" and "Beat It" helped make his album Thriller a huge success in 1982.
Thriller was the #1 album of the decade and spawned 7 top ten singles.
In 1983, Duran Duran used a heavy MTV rotation of its videos for songs Hungry Like A Wolf and Rio to launch their album, also called Rio, to the top of the US Billboard Charts.
In 1985, 80s pop music was dominated by the female counterpart to Michael Jackson, Madonna.
Born Madonna Louise Ciccone, Madonna shot to stardom partly based on the huge popularity of the music video for her song Like A Virgin.
The Like A Virgin album was released in late 1984 and contained 4 top ten hits whose videos were played continuously on MTV for most of 1985.
The British band From Liverpool England, "The Beatles" was the most visible of the many British music acts that found success in America.
Hundreds came to see the Fab Four's landing at La Guardia airport on February 7, 1964.
Their performance came a week later on the Ed Sullivan Show.
As the official beginning of what came to be called the "British Invasion.
" The Beatles were hugely popular; at one point they had the top five records on the Billboard Hot 100 list.
Today, kids sing along with pop tunes on the radio and sing their favorite Beatles tunes such as "A Hard Day's Night," "She Loves You", "Can't Buy Me Love" which were included in the hit albums "Meet the Beatles", "Abbey Road", and "The White Album".
1969 saw the important rock festival "Woodstock".
In August, the hippies were able to organize and run a 450,000-person three-day festival with few major problems.
In retrospect, it's overwhelmed facilities (only 200,000 had been expected) and lousy weather were a symbol that Woodstock was in reality the end of an era.
The Woodstock festival included 33 bands such as Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Santana, Credence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix, who ended the Festival with his hit song "Band of Gypsys".
The 1980s music was led by artists like Duran Duran, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince, and Whitney Houston.
Heavy Metal rock artists such as Judas Priest and Black Sabbath moved a little more mainstream with the likes of Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, and Poison.
Music television was heavily influenced by a fledgling music television network called MTV.
Michael Jackson's popular videos for songs like "Billy Jean" and "Beat It" helped make his album Thriller a huge success in 1982.
Thriller was the #1 album of the decade and spawned 7 top ten singles.
In 1983, Duran Duran used a heavy MTV rotation of its videos for songs Hungry Like A Wolf and Rio to launch their album, also called Rio, to the top of the US Billboard Charts.
In 1985, 80s pop music was dominated by the female counterpart to Michael Jackson, Madonna.
Born Madonna Louise Ciccone, Madonna shot to stardom partly based on the huge popularity of the music video for her song Like A Virgin.
The Like A Virgin album was released in late 1984 and contained 4 top ten hits whose videos were played continuously on MTV for most of 1985.
Source...