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The Beatles How have The Beatles influence America? The Beatles have influenced America in so many ways. Some of these ways are music, society, and recording techniques. The Beatles have influenced many artist today. Some of these artists include Dave Grohl, Billy Joel, Pink Floyd and Nirvana. If you are interested in The Beatles keep reading! One huge way The Beatles have influenced America is their music. The genre of The Beatles is rock n’ roll.The Beatles formed in the city of Liverpool in…

Anna Coletti Adrienne Hollifield AP English IV 15 October 2014 The Evolution of Audio Recordings From the crude beats of an ancient drum to the electronic sounds of a modern synthesizer, music has evolved over millennia. Since the invention of the audio recorder, people have been able to document the evolution of music so that history can actually be heard. Recording devices have developed from tinfoil and hand cranks to complex computer systems. When music was first being recorded, musicians…

The Beatles Music itself has been a huge part in history, through the times of slavery to the sixties to the present day. Many artists, like Bo Diddley, Elvis Presley, and Eric Clapton, contribute to the evolution of rock and roll. To many people, The Beatles are considered one of the most successful and influential bands in rock and roll history. They have had countless hits, several movies, and even a cartoon that aired during the sixties. The Beatles have been and will always be a major…

Kurt Cobain Kurt Cobain was one of the best grunge artists ever (if you ask me). He was part of two bands, Nirvana, and Fecal matter. He was the lead singer in both bands, and formed them both. Kurt Cobain didn’t have the best childhood, his parents yelled all of the time, and they got a divorce when he was nine, but he showed talent when he was in kindergarten so he kept on doing what he loved to do. Childhood Kurt was born on February 20, 1967 in Aberdeen, Washington. As a child Kurt Cobain…

Rock Legend Kurt Cobain is known for his new style of music, filled with hints of pop and metallic resonance, as he played with the famous band Nirvana. Starting in 1988 with their 10-song demo with Jack Endino, the legendary “GodFather of Grunge” Seattle Producer. With the help of Sub Pop Records, Jonathan Poneman, he offered Nirvana’s first single that helped carry them into becoming a rock icon. Coming from a troubled childhood, and poor habits, Cobain not only had many followers over his…

For example, Dave Grohl, drummer for the band Nirvana and founder of Foo Fighters, told Access Hollywood that Paul McCartney had inspired him at a young age. He said, “it got me to understand song structure and melody and harmony and arrangement. So, I never had a teacher…

Dave Grohl (who was the drummer of Nirvana and then the founder of Foo Fighters) stated how this music influenced him. According to him, it was The Beatles who made him interested in music in the first place. At a young age, he bought a guitar and would practice…

"One day Dave and I were sitting around watching a documentary on babies being born underwater, I thought that was a really neat image, so we decided, 'Let's put that on the album cover.' Then when we got back a picture of a baby underwater, I thought it would look…

“With the lights out, it's less dangerous, Here we are now, entertain us,” screamed Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, in Paris, in February of 1994. If somebody had told the rebellious teenager a few years before that his band would have mainstream success and that it would forever change their lives, and that he would be touring the world, and playing concerts on each and every continent (excluding Antarctica) he would have laughed in their face, but their songs went mainstream and they…

Piracy Piracy is defined as the copying and distributing of copies of a piece of music for which the composer, recording artist, or copyright-holding record company did not give consent. (Neuwirth, 2014) It is difficult to know exactly when and where the first instances of piracy occurred but there is evidence to show that composers as old as Beethoven where affected. “Both he (Beethoven) and his publisher had to contend with piracy by rival publishers who brought out editions of their own.”…