History of Rock Midterm

"The Rumble" 1958
-instrumental
-link wray (guitarist)
-early source of garage, surf,and hard rock
(ACDC)

Producer, writers, composers
-wrote "houndog" and "Jailhouse rock"
-wrote for The Coasters
-"Yakety Yak" and "Down in Mexico"
-playet style (tells a small story)

-wrote #1 hit song "To know him is to love him" (performed by the Teddy Bears)
-began in the record business in 20s and became a multi- millionare very young
-conceived “Phil Spektor’s Wall of Sound”
-The layering of instruments gave the final product a huge sound that couldn’t be recreated live
-The Ronettes’ “Be My Baby” -The Crystals’ “Then He Kissed Me”
-married one of the Ronettes but went crazy and locked her away in their house
-had the rock star persona

-surf rock
-teen idol
-"Runaway" - organ solo

-from the Bronx
-"Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer"
- surf rock, teen idols

Teen idol, surf rock
-'wipeout'

-surf rock guitarist (king of the surf guitar)
-'MIsirlou'
-'Lets Go Trippin'

-one hit wonder
-'The Twist'
-created a dance craze
-closes generation gap

"Dead Mans Curve"

-surf rock, "sound of California"
-America's band (rebellion)
-lyrics talked about what kids were interested in
-"I Get Around", 'Surfer Girl", "Surfin USA"
-"Dont Worry Baby" (develops lyrically- emotional)
-Brian Wilson (writer/producer) influenced by beatles album rubber soul - 1966 album "Pet Sounds" had experimental sounds and instruments
-paul McCartney loved it and it influenced the beatles
- album did not become very popular but was influential to other musicians

-John Lennon (1940-1980): guitar, vocals
-Paul McCartney (1942-): bass, vocals -George Harrison (1943-2001): lead guitar, vocals -Ringo Starr (born Richard Starkey, 1940-):drums
- from Liverpool. England
-influenced by American blues music
-Skiffle craze in England (created by Lonnie Donegan "Rock Island Line", had a simple chord structure and was 'every man's music')
-Originally • Called The Quarry Men‡Johnny & the Moondogs‡The Silver Beatles‡The Beatles
-1960 band traveled to Hamburg, Germany to play gigs at the Star Club from 7pm-2am (gained a lot of experience) drummer at time was Pete Best
-1962 played at the Cavern Club for 300 gigs
-Caught the attention of Brian Epstein who became their manager and works on their sound and image
-Sept. 1962 go into studio for the first time as group
-"Love Me Do" and "Please Please Me"
-1963 Beatlemania in England
-63 first record Please Please Me, every song mattered, only took 10 hours to record (Mercy Beat Sound)
-next album 'WIth the Beatles' and then 'Beatles for Sale'
-1963 first #1 in the UK was "From Me to You"
-"She Loves You" top 6 selling singles of all time in UK - major/minor chord shift, very simple

Feb. 1964 they sign with Capitol Records in America
- "I wanna hold your hand" first number one in USA
-"Till there was you"
-FIlms include A Hard Days Night (64) and Help! (65)
-both had soundtracks
-1965 song "Yesterday" most recorded in history
-late 65 came out with album 'Rubber Soul' which was influenced by Bob Dylan to write more meaningful lyrics - songs like "Norwegia Wood" and "Im looking through you"
- Aug. 1966 album Revolver, George Harrison writes a number of the songs "Yellow Submarine" and "im only Sleeping" by Lennon "Tomorrow Never Knows" is at the end of the album and is influenced by eastern cultures (Tibetan Book of Dead) they manipulated the sounds and voices by using different tape soures and blending them together
-End of Beatlemania in 66 with the Jesus Backlash (lennon answered a question about religion and it was taken out of context)
their last show was in San Fransico and then they stopped playing live
-June 1967 album Sgt. Pepper, first concept album

(62-64) Mercy Beat/ Beatlemania
(65-66) Folk/ early-psycodelic
(66-67) Experimental/ psycodelic
(68-70) return to roots/ classic rock

Manager - Andrew Loog Oldman
-the bad boys of rock had an individualistic look
-committed to American Blues
-from London (Blues revival happening)
-Brian Jones (guitar, other) put the band together, died 1969 Keith Richards (guitar) is still in the band Mick Jagger (vocals) is still in the band Charlie Watts (drums) is still in the band Bill Wyman (base) retired from the band in 1990
-they started out only doing covers, but were urged to write their own songs
-brought about the writing duo of Jagger/Richards
-"The Last time" first written hit song
-"play with fire" raw and engaging music
-1965 "Satisfaction" featured fuzz guitar and became 1960s anthem
-66 first album of all original songs 'Aftermath'
-songs "Paint it Black" and "Under my Thumb"
-1968 'Beggars Banquet'
-1969 'Let it Bleed'

-led by Ray Davies (guitar, vocals)
-brother Dave Davies
-popular songs "you really got me" "All day and all the night"
-power chord rock and riff based rock
-"waterloo sunset" and "Lola"