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  Encyclopedia: Rock and Roll
Rock and roll (also spelled rock 'n' roll, especially in its first decade), is a genre of music that emerged as a defined musical style in America in the 1950s.
Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in America in the 1950s, though elements of rock and roll can be heard in rhythm and blues records as far back as the 1920s.
Early rock and roll combined elements of blues, boogie woogie, jazz and rhythm and blues, and is also influenced by traditional Appalachian folk music, gospel and country and western.
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 Rock Star - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rock Star: INXS, a reality television program about the selection of a new lead vocalist for the band INXS.
A member of a Rock and Roll style band, or a solo artist in this genre.
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
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 Rock and roll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses of "Rock and roll", see Rock and roll (disambiguation).
At the end of the 1950s the original Rock 'n' Roll rush faded, as stars like Elvis Presley diverted into the more commercial sound of ballads, and the music went out of fashion.
The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll : The Definitive History of the Most Important Artists and Their Music by editors James Henke, Holly George-Warren, Anthony Decurtis, Jim Miller.
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 Ask the Rock Doc: - a Feature of The Phantom Tollbooth
Rock 'n' roll can represent a psychological threat because it can be used as a tool for introducing a compromised set of values.
Rock music is a powerful language that, of itself, is morally neutral.
As a psychologist, I have found rock 'n' roll to be one of the most useful adjuncts to traditional psychotherapy.
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 Encyclopedia: Wizard (disambiguation)
Wizzard were a 1970s British glam rock band led by Roy Wood (formerly of The Move and the Electric Light Orchestra).
The Whos Tommy, the first album explicitly billed as a rock opera A rock opera or rock musical is a musical production in the form of an opera or a musical in a modern rock and roll style rather than more traditional forms.
Glam rock (less commonly glitter rock), a style of rock music popularized in the 1970s, was mostly a British phenomenon and confined to larger cities in the U.S., such as New York and Los Angeles.
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 Encyclopedia: Rock n' Roll Nights
Rock n' Roll Nights is an album by Canadian rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music).
Bachman-Turner Overdrive Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) is a Canadian rock band that enjoyed a string of hit albums and singles in the 1970s.
Fender Precision Bass Bass Guitar is a commonly spoken phrase used to refer to the electric bass and horizontal acoustic basses, a stringed instrument similar in design to the electric guitar, but larger in size, commonly fretted and sometimes fretless and with a lower range.
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 Best Rock Songs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Rock candy, a type of confectionery composed of large sugar crystals
Rock, a slang term for a jewel, usually understood to be a diamond
Rock, the main character of the main Mega Man series before his transformation into "Mega Man".
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 Eagles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Their early music was a hybrid of country and bluegrass instrumentation grafted onto the harmonies of California surfer rock, producing tender ballads and soft top-down country-flavored pop-rock about relationships, cars, and the wandering life.
Bassist Randy Meisner (born March 8, 1946 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska) was a car and cycle enthusiast who preferred spending time with his family to playing bass in a rock and roll band.
In 1998, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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 Zombie (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zombie ball, a magic trick in which a metal sphere appears to levitate while covered with a silk cloth.
"Zombie", a song by Irish rock and roll band The Cranberries.
Rob Zombie, a singer, songwriter, artist, and film director, whose band White Zombie was named for a 1932 film.
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 Rock - Simple English Wikipedia
It also is used for a form of music.
It is short for rock and roll, and sometimes means a "harder" sound than the original "rock an roll" sound.
This is a disambiguation page — a helping aid which lists other pages with similar names.
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 Built This City On Rock And Roll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
A city is an urban area, differentiatedfrom a town, village, or hamlet by size, population density, importance, or legal status.
In the United Kingdom, a city is a town which has been knownas a city since time immemorial, or which has received city status by royal charter — which is normally granted on the basi...
On is the title of a song by the British IDM and Techno artist Richard D. James, more commonly known by his recording alias of Aphex Twin.
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 Rock and roll (disambiguation) - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Rock and roll or Rock 'n' roll may refer to:
Rock and Roll: an Introduction to The Velvet Underground, a 2001 compilation album
Rock N Roll, an album by the singer Ryan Adams
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 United Kingdom - ThinksBig.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Most of England consists of rolling lowland terrain, divided east from west by more mountainous terrain in the northwest (Cumbrian Mountains of the Lake District) and north (the upland moors of the Pennines) and limestone hills of the Peak District by the Tees-Exe line.
The UK was, with the US, one of the two main contributors in the development of rock and roll, and the UK has provided some of the most famous pop stars, including the Beatles, Sir Cliff Richard, Queen, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple and many others.
The UK was at the forefront of punk rock music in the 1970s with bands such as the Sex Pistols and The Clash, and the subsequent rebirth of heavy metal with bands such as Motörhead and Iron Maiden.
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 Anthrax (band)
Anthrax is a New York City-based heavy metal rock group, who released their first full-length album in 1984.
While Bring the Noise is widely regarded as the first Rap Rock hybrid, Anthrax actually claims that credit with an earlier song, 1987's I'm the Man, a comedic song originally slated to be played with the Beastie Boys, although they didn't actually get to play this song with Anthrax until 1991's remake.
Unfortunately the musical landscape of the early '90s was changing drastically; Alternative Rock was the rage, and metal was no longer being pushed by the music industry.
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 rock - OneLook Dictionary Search
Rock, The Rock : Columbia Gazetteer of North America [home, info]
Phrases that include rock: sedimentary rock, igneous rock, rock crystal, metamorphic rock, rock and roll, more...
Words similar to rock: careen, cradle, rocked, rocking, rocklike, shake, stone, sway, tilt, granite, rock and roll, rock candy, rock music, rock 'n' roll, totter, more...
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 Sun (disambiguation) Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 Rock Star Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
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 Doppelgänger (disambiguation) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
For the (A person of German nationality) German word for a ghostly double of a living person see (Click link for more info and facts about Doppelgänger) Doppelgänger
For the 1983 album by (A band of musicians who play rock-'n'-roll music) rock band (Click link for more info and facts about Daniel Amos) Daniel Amos see (Click link for more info and facts about Doppelgänger (album)) Doppelgänger (album)
For The film Doppelgänger aka Journey to the Far Side of the Sun a (Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society) science fiction movie produced by (Click link for more info and facts about Gerry Anderson) Gerry Anderson see (Click link for more info and facts about Doppelgänger (film)) Doppelgänger (film).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/D/Do/Doppelg%E4nger_(disambiguation).htm   (255 words)

  
 Nazareth (disambiguation) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Nazareth (disambiguation) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Nazareth is also the name of a Scottish Rock and Roll band:
This page was last modified 20:03, 30 Jan 2005.
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 Chess (disambiguation) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Chess (disambiguation) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Chess Records, a USA rock and roll and RandB record label
This page was last modified 05:16, 13 Apr 2005.
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 Brighton Rock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
This article is about the English city; for other places called Brighton, see Brighton (disambiguation).
After a considerable andscholarly review, Paul Harwood of Birmingham's Institute of...
2) " Rock" -- in the term Brighton Rock
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 Rochefort (disambiguation)
Not to be confused with Roquefort or Rock & Roll.
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/United States
The United States of America—also referred to as the United States, the USA, the U.S. America, the States, and (poetically) Columbia—is a democratic federal republic of fifty states located primarily in central North America.
U.S. music is heard all over the world, and it is the sire of such forms as blues and jazz and had a primary hand in the shaping of modern rock and roll and popular music culture.
New York, Seattle, and San Francisco are worldwide leaders in graphic design and New York and Los Angeles compete with major European cities in the fashion industry.
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 Billboard Top Rock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
For other uses of the term, see Top (disambiguation).
A top, or spinning top, is a children's toy that can be spun on an axis,balancing on a point.
3) " Rock" -- in the term Billboard Top Rock
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 Learn more about Evolution (disambiguation) in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Learn more about Evolution (disambiguation) in the online encyclopedia.
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 Price (disambiguation) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Price (disambiguation) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
People whose (The name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)) family name is or was Price include
(Click link for more info and facts about Lloyd Price) Lloyd Price (born 1933), rock and roll musician
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 VU
The Velvet Underground an American rock and roll band of the late 1960s.
VU was an album released by this band.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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