...The organ-driven material of the Doors brought psychedelic rock into the pop charts. In 1965, Ray Manzarek was playing in Ray and the Ravens with his two brothers. He met fellow UCLA student Jim Morrison, who had begun to write songs...
...Voted number twenty in the 2015 Rolling Stone list of 100 Greatest Guitarists, Carlos Santana has experienced popularity and critical acclaim from the very beginning. He has earned ten Grammy Awards for his musical performances throughout...
...The music of Captain Beefheart stood at the crossroads of the avant-garde and rock traditionalism. Born in California in 1941, Don Vliet was a sculpting prodigy as a child. At the age of thirteen, he was offered the chance to study art...
...Noted for his distinctive gravelly voice, Tom Waits is a singer-songwriter and instrumentalist. Despite never having released a hit, Waits has gained a significant cult following over the course of his career. Waits also makes his own...
...Jethro Tull is the name of a British rock band. Since its formation in 1967, the band has been known to play a wide variety of genres over the years, including British blues in its early years, progressive rock and folk rock in the 1970s...
...The late 1950s and early 1960s material by the Coasters provided a link between the older doo-wop sound, blues, and the new rock and roll. Formed in 1955, the Coasters evolved out of the Los Angeles doo-wop group the Robins after two of its...
...The Rolling Stones built their career by touring and gaining publicity as the “opposite of the Beatles,” appearing on stage in an unclean manner with mismatched clothing and long hair. After the Beatles reportedly stopped performing live...
...Noted for launching the careers of three of rock music’s most famous guitarists Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, The Yardbirds were a British rock band in the 1960s. They made their beginnings in the blues before evolving to more...
...Emerging from the Hawks, a backing band for singer Ronnie Hawkins, the Band’s lineup of Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson, and Levon Helm mastered the art of combining American folk roots music with rock and roll...
...The innovative guitar style of Jimi Hendrix questioned the fundamental role of the instrument and invested it with a new sense of spectacle. Hendrix was born in Seattle in 1942, and his family life was tumultuous. His parents fought...
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