Bob Woodward

The Beatles: Imprints Left on Struggling America After many tragedies and let downs, America looked towards The Beatles as foreign role models for change and to get through its all-time lows. After Kennedy’s assassination and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Americans needed something that would take their minds off of the hardships in their lives. Surely obsessing over four young, talented, and foreign men would do it. On February 9th, 1964, the Beatles made their first American television debut.…

Cohort effects emerge through normative history-graded influences byways of historical, political or economic, social or cultural events. The Beatles influenced both younger and older people (and the rock era) during their popularity; individuals who experienced the Beatles’ music (whether they enjoyed or disliked) are connected through some degree of comradery. This music is something that the groups of people from that time can talk about, these groups of individuals have experienced the…

Did you know The Beatles were famous failures once? Most people had no clue the Beaten failed at first so don’t feel bad if you were on of them. If you were one of the multiple people who didn’t know, in this essay you will learn why they were failed, how they were successful, and why they broke up and went there different ways. Beatles' early career was actually a series of failure. One reason they were a failure because, a record that reached the top in their unsuccessful audition with…

When pop music collides with politics, the outcomes are sometimes life-changing and intricate. 33 Revolutions Per Minute outlines this connection by using 33 central songs which include Billie Holiday serenading “Strange Fruit” to Green Day’s Iraq War rampage. Dorian Lynsky goes into the song artists, concepts and procedures behind each individual song which demonstrates to the reader how protest music has manifested social changes since the 1930s. 33 Revolutions Per Minute is a history of…

The Beatles Close your eyes. Now open them, otherwise you won't be able to read this amazing yet somewhat boring essay. Imagine yourself at a Beatles concert. Do you see the screaming fans? That’s what the 1960s were like for a lot of people. The Beatles are remembered greatly today for various reasons. Pretty much everyone in the United States of America from 1960 to about 1975 knew the Beatles and what they were all about. The Beatles were a complex band if the 1960s. They were very popular,…

The 1960’s was a decade full of change in social order, views on politics, perspectives on war, and music. One way that music changed was through bands and musicians that helped push the new sound of music forward. It appealed greatly to the younger generation who enjoyed the different sound. The Beatles were one of the first, and most important, bands to change the way music sounds all the way to present day. The Beatles were made up of mainly four people: George Harrison (1940-2001), who was…

One way to make a name for yourself in the music industry is to create a new song, a new sound that changes and tests the music of the time. Bands such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who all redefined the music of the sixties and in doing so created a new genre of music that inspired generations of music to outlive them. However, something all of these bands did, dating back into the late fifties early sixties, was do covers of already famous classics. A cover song is when a band…

Mason Montgomery History of Rock Todd Campbell 5/9/2015 The Success of John Mayer “People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them (BrainyQuote)”. John Mayer said this, referring to himself as a musician that sings about real things. Whether his quote his true or not, Mayer has always been a singer song writer that thinks highly of himself. He is obviously a great musician being awarded 7 Grammy’s, and nominated…

The Buddy Guy concert at the Sun Center on Monday Aug. 11th was a present of a blues legend wrapped in a box of a great young blues artist with a surprise bow. Quinn Sullivan is an accomplished blues/soul artist. What is remarkable is that he is just 16. He appeared on Ellen DeGeneres in 2001 at 5 and his career has been steady progressing with the likes of Buddy Guy using him to warm-up his audience. Quinn took the stage and about half way through his first number, the crowd was just…

Bob dylan, after being announced the winner of nobel literature prize 2016, suddenly attracts the attention of the world. When asking why Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius, in an interview, answers that “He can be read and should be read, and is a great poet in the English tradition, and he is the wonderful sampler, very original sampler. He inbold the tradition and for 54 years now. He has been active,…