Born May 13, 1950 Saginaw Michigan, was Stevie wonder. He is a very talented musician who, learned how to play common instruments. At age ten, he had mastered the piano, drums, organ, and harmonica. He is very well known for the song “Isn't she lovely” in the album “Songs in the Key of Life”, released 1976. As we all know stevie was blind, blind since…
Franz Ferdinand was assassinated on June 15th around noon in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The alleged assassins have been identified as a Siberian terrorist organization, The Blackhand.…
On March 25th, 1947, in Pinner, Middlesex, England a child was born. His name? Reginald Kenneth Dwight, but we know him as Elton John. Reginald was born a musician. How do I know this? Look at him! At age three Reginald began learning Piano and it really got him far when he was eleven. Reginald received a scholarship to the Royal Music Academy. Elton studied at the academy for a while. Then sometimes in the sixties Reginald began a band named "Bluesology." "Bluesology's" main members were Reginald Dwight, Elton Dean, and Long John Baldry. "Bluesology" became quite famous in '65 but Reginald broke up the band to start his solo career. Reginald knew that his name wasn't suitable for the music Biz sp he changed his name to Elton John. His new…
He started playing at the local church and soon became something of a neighborhood sensation.…
“Best-selling band in the history of pop music, six Diamond albums, twenty-four multi-Platinum albums, thirty-nine Platinum albums, forty-five Gold albums, seven Grammys, fifteen Novellos, one Academy Award, ...” the list goes on and on (Weinstein). Accomplishments of this sort were no great feat for The Beatles. They were a great band to say the least, but ultimately they were regular people weathered from their years of being in the spot light. The ending of the Beatles was inevitable, they had gone trough too much as friends and as people to continue in the manner that they had in the old days of “Love Me Do”, but their final album “Abbey Road” is a testament to the greatness of this band who had achieved so much in their past. Critically acclaimed…
Weezer is a well-known alternative rock, power pop, pop punk band that many people have come to love and enjoy since their formation in 1992. The band has a history of changing their sound throughout their career; from pop to rock and back again between albums, Weezer flirts with different genres of music to create a sound unique to the band. Through all of this, Weezer consistently seems to choose a distinct genre to correspond to each individual album, helping the band to develop a large fan base with many different kinds of people listening to their music. One of such fans is Mrs. Withrow.…
Francis Albert Sinatra was a very successful singer and actor. Born in Hoboken, new Jersey on december 12,1915. Natalina Della and Saverio Antonino Martino Sinatra were both immigrants that moved to the U.S before Frank was born. Growing up in Hoboken Frank started singing at a saloon. That wasn’t enough in high school he joined multiple glee and choir groups. This is when he met his first wife Barbara Sinatra and his career took off. Even though he was a drinker and he went through many marriages. Frank Sinatra is one of the best classic singers and he has inspired many people to do what they want. As he even can from poverty which is what makes his life so interesting.…
Scientist Ben Kennedy begun a very lengthy quest to solve the mystery of the shrinking pumice. This quest would eventually change the way scientists think about volcanoes-forever. One of the things (out of many) that he and his colleagues found out while on the road was that not only the rock was shrinking, the pores that make up the rock were shrinking as well. They think that this was due to the heating of the rock, and the molten rock's surface tension. What the scientist found was how some volcanoes function on the inside. In past years, volcanologists believed that flowing lava sinks back down and settles after an eruption, pressing on the magma below and crushing all of the bubbles, which makes pressure build up under the compacted lava. This leaves the lava sitting there...Until it explodes. Pow! This hints at why some volcanoes will go through cycles of flowing and explosive eruptions.…
I was 15 when I heard Carly Simon for the first time, I had listened to music on the radio of course, even been to a couple of concerts. Heck I had went to see Three Dog Night the summer before, but that summer I was staying with my sister here in Sedalia, I thought I was a long way from home being I was all the way from Kansas City, Kansas. Until that summer I had never really stopped and really listened to the words.…
Well-known artist Josh Devine is a great drummer for the band of One Direction, with a love for music. Just like many other artists he is well known in his time just as Elvis Presley was in his time or Aerosmith in their time. Every era has a well known musician or band, back in the 1920’s it was Louis Armstrong.…
Segregation between bands. Integration happened eventually, but what slowed that is the society outside of the music world.…
As we inch towards the year 2000, we look back to the pre-dominant individuals of the 20th century. Time magazine voted Frank Sinatra as the world's most influential vocalist of the 20th century. Frank Sinatra not only excelled but transcended music and became a true personality of our time. Whether you're talking about recorded music, live performances, movies or simply living large, Frank Sinatra has done that all. He has become an international figure, having the reputation as a celebrity, icon, bad boy and the greatest singer of American popular songs. He is known as being America's first teen idol and also as a true American Legend. You may all know the name "Frank Sinatra" but you may all not know why Frank Sinatra is…
The history of Led Zeppelin is absolutely incredible. The band formed in 1968, in England. The band consisted of Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham. Led Zeppelin is credited for being the first heavy metal bands. Their music was a variety of blues, folk, rockabilly, reggae, soul, funk, jazz, classical, Celtic, Indian, Arabic, pop, Latin and country.…
The 5 key values that I wish to live my life by is deeply reflected from my childhood. I had a tumultuous childhood; my parents were tie dye vendors who followed the Grateful Dead, and that was just the beginning. Since then I have come to recognize 5 key values in my life that I wish to hold as constants and grow myself upon.…
Globalisation, access and ideology have influenced the change in the consumption of Rock and Roll. In terms of popular culture, globalisation refers to the way that a popular culture can now be basically the same in many parts of the world, and that very few companies may control the production of a popular culture throughout the world. Access is the way consumers listened too, buy or get music. Ideology is in general usage, refers to the body of doctrine, myth and symbols of a social movement, a social class or institution.…