John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

social consciousness and political statements. Events like the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, and the progression of the Civil Rights Movement all inflicted change in music. During the 1960’s, many genres of music emerged, like Motown and R&B, folk and protest music, and the many subgenres of rock music, such as surf rock and hard rock. In the early to mid-1960’s, many British rock bands and pop artists became popular in the U.S. and all across the world. This time…

Billie Joe Armstrong should have his own holiday, named Green Day, for having his band be very influential, helped renew interest in punk rock in the U.S., and has sung a variety of different music types that appealed to a large audience. Billie Joe Armstrong’s band was very influential to the music industry. A Times UK article states about the American band, “their influence has been all over British carts” and that bands from Sum 41 and Blink 182 had been weaned on Green Day and Billie Joe…

emulate the Beatles music proving an outlet for people who crave the sound of the Beatles. They were harassed by England’s media for replicating the Beatles sound, though are praised everywhere else as an ambitious band able to live up to the Beatles reputation. ELO, to others were not just a band copying the Beatles. They are a second Beatles that encourage people to look within their memories as musicians. Overall ELO’s success came from the manner in which they replicated the Beatles sound…

Rock and Roll in Cleveland The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a famous museum that is located in Cleveland, Ohio. This museum teaches, engages, and inspires through the power of rock and roll. The museum was opened to celebrate rock music because it became so popular in the 1950s. People pass the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland every day without knowing it is an important historical landmark in Ohio. In the polls, Cleveland was ranked first for where the Hall of Fame museum should be…

shelves, and the band skyrockets to the top of the charts. However, fame, fortune, and stress soon engulf them as they orchestrate seventeen hit singles and sell an estimated 600 million records worldwide. This legendary band entered the world at a time when people needed an escape from the chaos, and they truly connected with their generation. They were an unprecedented phenomenon that exhibited a unique sound while maintaining simplicity. The Beatles are the most influential band in history…

The Beatles: a band so popular that it was compared with Jesus Christ himself. This band like many others had a shaky start, and for many lived for too little. But during its prime the Beatles created some of the world’s favorite music, and influenced an entire generation of it. Firstly the purpose of this essay is to explain the ways that “The Beatles” and its members shaped music around the world. While doing this this essay is going to tell the story of the Beatles. This will include how…

gender and race band: Sly And The Family Stone. Known largely for their sound in the late sixties with as much mixture in their sound as in their band, playing a fusion of soul, rhythm and blues, funk, psychedelia, gospel, and all around high energy music. The band formed in 1967 and had a major hit on Pop and R&B charts in 1968 “Dance To The Music”, but got a much greater fan base after their amazing performance at Woodstock. They played at 3:30 am Sunday morning August 17, 1969. The band had a…

The day the figurehead of the Beatles and lead singer John Lennon died, it seems as if a simple killing united the world as one on one devastating day. John was killed on December 8th 1980 by Mark David Chapman outside of his New York Apartment, forever moving the image of the music industry. I believe that John Lennon’s assassination was an unjust act of obsession that ultimately ended the life of one of the most influential people in all of music; however is success lacked due to his chronic…

The name of the band I'm doing for this write up is The Beatles and the album is Revolver. The genre of this album is pop/rock. I personally do not listen to the Beatles that much. But I really like a lot of songs in this album when I thought I would like none of these songs. In this album there are 14 songs mostly by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Overall I really like this album and would recommend this album to people. The band members in this band are Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo…

simultaneously a ladies’ man and a man’s man. Women wanted to be with him and men wanted to be him. After all, he had a total of four wives in his lifetime, and if he did not die in 1998 he probably would have remarried again. Sinatra became famous singing in a band called the Rat Pack. They group acted in movies and sang music together at the same time. Believe it or not, Frank Sinatra was a highschool dropout. He wanted to pursue his singing career and put school aside. During the 40s, Frank…