The writer of the letter is Bob Dylan. He is a folk rock singer-songwriter whose career began in the early 1960s with songs that spoke social issues like war and civil rights. He was born in 1941 in Minnesota‚ where he grew up‚ and attended the University of Minnesota. In 1960‚ he dropped out in order to pursue a singing career‚ and moved to New York. People loved him thanks to his poetic lyrics about everyday life that the ordinary “folks” could relate to. He was known for reinventing himself
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2/22/13 McCartney vs. Lennon: Loving and Losing John Lennon and Paul McCartney are two revolutionary artists who grew and developed a very beautiful and distinct style of song writing that shaped or rather influenced musicians apart of and after their generation. Besides a distinct difference in tonality between John and Paul‚ both musicians are very different from one another and it is this chemistry that is the very essence of The Beatle’s aura. It is important to understand this distinct
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Pop culture is transmitted via the mass media and aimed particularly at younger people. Pop culture can be expressed through many different ways such as fashion‚ music‚ television‚ movies‚ cars and sports. Pop culture was targeted at teens for many reasons. These reasons were that teens cared how they appeared and were influenced by the images and looks. After World War 2 finished‚ improvements to entertainment started to happen this gave people more ideas and new trends. To understand pop culture
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The first Hispanic rock star‚ Richard Steven Valenzuela aka Ritchie Valens was born May 13‚ 1941 near Los Angeles California. At an early age Valens developed a love for music; being able to play several instruments. While exposed to the rhythm and blues music though his father‚ Valens vowed to devoted most of his time to the guitar and would slowly strive to aspire his dreams of being an artist. By the age of 16 Valens joined his first band The Silhouette‚ an integrated group who played local high-school
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Elvis was adored and very popular in the 1950s. “Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8‚ 1935 into a hard scrabble existence in East Tupelo‚ Mississippi” (ABC-CLIO). Elvis built up his career on his own and was very successful even with all the hate he would receive. He maintained his fame even when he was drafted into the army. He was influenced by many genres and singers so most of his music was by other musicians (ABC-CLIO). In December of 1957 “Presley was drafted into the U.S army…in 1967
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Born in England 1947‚ Brian May is the lead guitarist and singer for the late 1900s band Queen. He started to love music at a young age of 12 and played the piano and ukulele. His love for music started to burst when he got his first guitar on his seventeenth birthday. Shortly after‚ him and his father started to create a new one from scratch. The guitar was known as the Red Special‚ and Brian would use this guitar with a sixpence coin used as a pick. Him and his friends from college‚ Roger Taylor
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The word “sublime” means: to inspire great admiration or awe tending to inspire awe because of elevated quality or beauty. The band Sublime does not fall short of this grandiose title. For my mars playlist I chose to put the song “Don’t Push” off of Sublime’s debut 1992 album “40oz to Freedom”. This track’s nonchalant story-telling lyrics‚ heavily delayed dopey vocals‚ catchy bassline‚ reggae guitar riffs‚ and their free-spirited punk attitude‚ perfectly depicts my favorite aspect of Sublime’s signature
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Compare and contrast Sarah Elvidge 113511 Music 209 A Duality- Slipknot (genre Metal) and Letting the telephone ring- Ani Difranco (Genre Indie/ Folk Rock) These two songs both talk about cheating by someone you love but lyrically they are very different. Ani Difranco uses words that are softer and more emotional where as Slipknot chooses words that are harder and more physical. The word choice of these two distinct songs gives distinct overall sounds that are very different from one
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Since 1967‚ Rolling Stones magazine has classified the band Queen as a pomp-rock band‚ and has become one of the most influential bands of all time. Iconic songs like “We Are The Champions” and “We Will Rock You” put an encouraging and motivational mindset behind Queen. Originally known as Smile‚ the band regrouped and changed their name to what they known today as Queen. The band tried to avoid the clubs by playing small gigs and practicing for two years while the members continued to finish college
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Tommy the album was a groundbreaking record put out by The Who in 1969. It was groundbreaking because it was a concept album that was dubbed the first "rock opera" which followed the story of a deaf dumb and blind man from childhood to adulthood. His life is met with many strange occurrences from being shocked as a small child into a psychosomatic state‚ becoming a master of all things pinball and finally becoming a Christ-esque figure of a new age cult. The album was met with two completely different
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