John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

Keith Richards may be best-known for the time he spent in The Rolling Stones, but the rocker is still going strong at 71 years old. Though Richards has spent a lot of his life in the limelight, there are still some facts about him that have slipped through the cracks. Here, we present our list of 15 things you probably didn't know about Keith Richards. Check out part one below, and stay tuned for part two, coming soon! Number Fifteen: He Does Not Sleep Very Much. In his autobiography, Richards…

was much different. Today we many types of rap and pop and other genres. Rock was the biggest music in the 60’s. Many forms of rock that is, such as blues rock. This songs would normally be happy, the 60’s was full of peace movements. A very popular band that almost everyone knows is the Beatles. They were a giant hit in the 60’s producing many spots on the charts with their music. Also Led Zepplin was popular in the 60’s. Secondly the movies were different too.The start of horror films came…

rock band Nickelback. The group started out as an Indie metal band in Hanna, Alberta, Canada. It wasn’t until 2000, when they broke into the mainstream music scene in the U.S. and Canada. The band was created by the Kroeger brothers, Chad (the leader and vocalist) and Mike (the bassett). The Kroeger brothers always dreamed of a life of Rock and Roll. To complete the band, Ryan Peake, Ryan Vikedal?, and Brandon Kroeger (cousin of Chad’s and Mikes) joined and Nickelback was born. The band…

the preceding decades. The most popular recording artists before the sixties featured a recognizable star as the leader of the performers. Duke Ellington, Muddy Waters, Glenn Miller, and many others were widely known and their bands were mostly unknown musicians. Rock band from the sixties mostly had group names. The Rolling Stones, Cream, and The Beach Boys all typified naming this convention, creating a collective identity for their group and their sound that was absent in earlier eras of…

In 1962 a new blues cover band was discovered – the Rolling Stones. Inspired musicians by artist Chuck Berry, they became the first Rock and Roll band in history. One of the defining moments of the 1960s was the Rolling Stones era, they were followed and influential towards their fans across the world. In 1962 the Stones secured a gig at the Roll-daddy club in Richmond, England where their popularity spread. The numbers of fans increased rapidly over the weekends they played at the bar, they…

realized what they were doing until it was happening. Spielberg’s film depicts thousands of girls coming from all different places, surrounding not only the plane that the Beatles had arrived to New York in, but as well as following them to the hotel the band was staying at during their time in America and attempting to get in. This is paralleled in Berman’s novel, “We’re Going to See the Beatles!” in firsthand accounts from those who had gone to see the Beatles departing their plane;…

1960’s Poster Project – Yoko Ono and John Lennon Stage “Bed-In” for Peace In 1969, during the Vietnam War, John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, staged long Bed-Ins for Peace in Amsterdam and Montreal. These events were conducted as non-violent protests against war, promoting peace. American people had begun a movement against the involvement of the United States in 1964, and the movement grew in years to come, especially with the help of influential figures like Lennon and Ono. American…

In 1967, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and legendary guitarist player Peter Green formed the first Fleetwood Mac. It was numerous years before they had the awareness that Christine Perfect, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham even existed. The original band had a successful string of number one singles in Europe. Including a Peter Green classic made famous in the US by Carlos Santana, Black Magic Woman. But through the years, the band had a series of guitarist front men and back up singers that…

John Lennon had said in the 1960s, “It matters not who you love, where you love or how you love, it matters only that you love.” This quote explains the challenges, the failures, and struggles, one of the major bands, the Beatles have encountered during the 1960s. When two of the Beatles were younger, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, they would sometimes leave school to practice together. McCartney's younger schoolmate George Harrison was soon recruited as another guitarist, as was Lennon's art…

mostly sang about peace and love, experimenting with different concepts on the subject and various instruments. George Harrison introduced the sitar in some of their later albums. Originally, they started as a simple pop band and eventually grew and developed into a rock and roll band. Most of their fan base was composed of teenage girls, while the Rolling Stones attracted every one of every age. They would have to think of creative and clever ways to sneak lyrics about sex and drugs into their…