The late 70s to 80s, we see punk rock emerge with bands like the Ramones, Sex Pistol, and the Clash. In the late 60s and early 70s, we had psychedelic rock (think Pink Floyd), glam rock (think David Bowie), roots rock (think The Eagles), and heavy metal. Soon bands like The Beatles, Gerry & the Pacemakers, Freddie and the Dreamers, Animals, Rolling Stones, and the Yardbirds had found their own niches.Īs with all great genres, rock began to cultivate several sub-genres. In particular, musicians in Britain pounced on the new art form. Other artists also began to grow in popularity, people like Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly, and Little Richard.īy the 60s, rock’n’roll had already started to expand into a more general genre that we now identify as ‘rock’.Īs the American rock scene exploded, the rock movement began to spread worldwide. In the next decade, rock’n’roll became the ‘pop’ music of the time, first gaining traction with the emergence of Elvis Presley, the King of Rock’n’Roll. The stage was set for this new type of sound to take to the airwaves. In the 1950s, Freed in New York, Phillips in Memphis, and other artists around the country came to the same realization - there was a new underground genre emerging and it drew inspiration from R&B, Blues, and Country. King, Howlin’ Wolf, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ike Turner, and Carl Perkins. He wanted to discover genuinely unique talent.Īnd it was with this open mindset that Phillips would go on to be the first to record Elvis, B.B. He wanted to hear deeper, more human, emotional music. He didn’t want flawless pop artists to come through his studio. Phillips loved music he loved the imperfection of it. Musicians that no one else would record started seeing Phillip’s studio as a last-ditch opportunity. Rather than seek out and record artists, he’d let anyone (literally, anyone) walk in and record. Billboard magazine would later call him “the undisputed king of radio programming.”Īt the same time, in a little recording studio in Memphis, Sam Phillips was testing an unconventional business model. Freed’s music taste quickly became well known and he took his radio show to New York where he could be heard in all the major cities across the country. Taking the music that he found to be growing in popularity, Freed hosted the first-ever rock’n’roll concert, called the Moondog Coronation Ball. The term rock’n’roll first emerged in 1951 when Alan Freed, a Cleveland radio host, used it to describe the R&B music he played on the station. This week’s newsletters will highlight some of the most well-known and little-known musicians, music facts, and genres. Throughout time, music has been used as a way to connect people, express feelings, and tell stories.
“Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it.” -Elvis Presley Food For Thought The Evolution of Rock
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