This is no racist question…I know thats the first thing that popped in your head tho
…I just wanna know what their/your sources are and show me evidence…the last I heard
the Rolling Stones,The Beatles,Led Zeppelin etc. were the pioneers of rock & roll…I mean
Jimi Hendrix was the shit but he didnt invent it…thanks
who thinks *blacks* invented rock & roll
R&R music,not the term,was created by blacks.
Normally,by most fans of R&R the first hit was ‘rocket88′
by one of Ike Turners band, Jackie Brenston in 51.
This is an excerpt from a site
Now that the music had arrived, all it needed was a name. R&B (coined in 1949) was too broad a term, because R&B was a category which included all forms of black music except for jazz and gospel. Anything else was considered R&B, regardless of the actual musical style. It could be a ballad, old-style jump blues, crooners like the Ink Spots, blues shouters, or anything else, it would be classified as R&B. But this rocking music was new and revolutionary, and therefore it needed a new name, so the disc jockeys, led by a Cleveland DJ named Alan Freed, started calling it rock and roll. This was in 1951, and many DJ’s followed suit, such as Waxie Maxie in DC, Hunter Hancock in LA, and Porky Chedwick in Pittsburgh. By 1953 the new term was becoming widely used, and also was being used to market the music to a wider audience beyond the R&B market. Many white people who remember the early 50’s think that 1954 was the year that rock and roll started. But no, that’s just the year they first became aware of it, in crossover tunes like "Sh-Boom" by the Chord Cats, "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" by Big Joe Turner, "Earth Angel" by the Penguins, "Gee" by the Crows, (recorded in 1953), "Rock Around The Clockt" by Bill Haley and the Comets, and some of the first Doo Wop tunes to cross over from R & B. It’s also the year Elvis first recorded rock and roll, although these Sun records only gave him local fame, and he didn’t actually get famous until RCA picked him up in 1955. Black people who remember the early 50’s tell a different story.
The source site gives a lot of information
Live at the Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan 01.07.1966
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I don’t hear much about Elvis, but I’ve heard people call him the "King of Rock N’ Roll" but I’ve been hearing about how good people think the Beatles are and all… so, who do you think is the King and/or God of Rock N’ Roll, and who do you think is better?
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Live In Japan 1966
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John Lennon, but it was written by Chuck Berry in the mid 50’s.
Who had the Greatest influence on Rock and roll today?
I prefer the later Beatles as comparison the early stuff was to pop.. So only count later Beatles in question…
To Davis V I aggree the Rubber Soul was the turnning point in their careers. AAfter that the Beatles to made music from everything. The back side of Abbey Road alone is incredible.. Influence say Pink Floyd???
Here’s what I have to say on the matter. In my opinion the Beatles were trailblazers. They took a lot of chances musically and led the way for many bands coming up behind them.
The Stones were always very good chameleons. They were always able to take the music of the day and make it their own. When the psychedelic era was going on, they came out with Satanic Majesties Request. During the disco era the came out with Emotional Rescue. During the 80’s they were all about Pop music, at least Mick was.
I think that the Beatles, while having a much shorter career were leaders, the Stones were survivors.
By the way, I love both bands!
The Beatles performing in Japan on July of 1966. They sing “Rock And Roll Music”, which was released in the albums Beatles For Sale and Beatles 65′.
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back again! lol i need to know what the beatles did to influence rock and roll
The Beatles’ influence on rock music and popular culture was—and remains—immense. Their commercial success started an almost immediate wave of changes—including a shift from US global dominance of rock and roll to UK acts, from soloists to groups, from professional songwriters to self-penned songs, and to changes in fashion.They also provided the template for the self-contained four-piece guitar group.
Their clothes, hairstyles and choice of musical instruments made them trendsetters throughout the decade; their growing social awareness, reflected in the development of their music, saw their influence extended far beyond the music scene into the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s; and their enduring popularity with successive generations of both fans and musicians has cemented their reputation for being one of the most influential music artists of all time.
Even decades after the band broke up, The Beatles have become a yardstick to which nearly all new rock and roll bands are compared. It is extremely common for new bands to be promoted as being "the next Beatles" or "the new fab four". It is also quite common for record reviewers and members of the media to refer to musical acts as being "Beatlesque" given The Beatles impact on Baby-Boomer culture. To this day, no new artist or band has quite lived up to the hype of being compared to The Beatles. Inspiring the same degree of popularity as The Beatles may be unattainable now due to the splintering of popular tastes in music.
The influence of The Beatles even extended beyond their music. Perhaps the most notable was their influence on male fashion. Their relatively long hair, when they burst onto the scene in 1964, was a shocking fashion statement, one that was quickly adopted by other rock bands of the time, and by the 1970s, long hair became standard fashion for men. The hair styles even led toy manufactures to begin producing plastic "Beatle Wigs". In the early Beatle-mania years, the Beatles would occasionally wear grey, collarless suits. These unusual suits eventually became extremely common for new bands after 1964. In fact, it was not unusual for bands to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show or another similar program wearing the suits made popular by the band.
Beatlemania Club
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aerosmith, beatles, rolling stone. This is a sick trend that i don’t understand
Site some examples of these songs. Do you wanna kiss your sister? I think you may be reading some things into the lyrics.