Chuck Berry recorded his first demo.
1In May, 955, Chuck Berry recorded four songs. demo did not repeat the recording technology, so it could only be recorded once. If it was recorded incorrectly, it would be repeated. Berry recorded it 36 times. Many years later, guitarist eric clapton said that it set the rules for the way rock music was played.
The Legend of Blair Palace
Brill Building is a 10-storey building near Times Square in new york. At that time, about 160 people in the music and record industry worked there. Throughout the1960s, this building contributed countless hits to the pop music industry. 1October, 1960, 1 1, where Carol King recorded Will You Love Me Tomorrow? Six weeks later, the song topped the charts and set off a wave of women's groups.
The motor city is on the road
1962 10, Motown Records grew up from a small company founded in Detroit. In order to enhance its influence, founder Berry Gordy decided to call his singers on tour under the name of Motown. The performance attracted a large number of white and black fans.
The Last Stop of Godfather of Soul Songs
1962, james brown, the father of soul music, performed at Apollo Theater in Harlem, new york. Influenced by ray charles 1960 live album "In Person", Brown made a suggestion to the record company to record and distribute the whole performance. But the record company boss insists that fans are only interested in the new single and will not spend money to listen to a concert that has already cost money. So Brown had to publish it himself, and he spent $5,700. This record sold 6,543,800 copies that year, and it has already become a classic in the history of soul music.
The national anthem of garage rock was born.
1963 in April, five boys from Oregon, USA, walked into the recording studio. In order to capture the atmosphere, the band stood in a circle around the microphone, with the lead singer standing in the middle. The song they recorded called "Louie, Louie" quickly became a classic in the history of garage rock. It was not only reported by many people, including tina turner and barry white, but also inspired The Kinks and Van Morrison.
"Hate" Venus Studio
"I think everyone likes working with me, but everyone hates Venus Studio." Phil Spector said. However, it was in that filthy recording studio full of cockroaches and feces that the golden song "Be My Baby" was born. Since then, from 1962 to 1966, there have been more than 20 hit songs under Phillip Spector's name, making him a gold medal producer.
The greatest soul song in history
"One night, he called me to listen to his new song," Sam Cooke guitarist Bobby Womack recalled the first time he heard the song "Change is coming". "He has a lot of speakers at home, so he sings it to me, and my bones are shaking. I told him,' Sam, this song can make people want to die.' "Sam later admitted that this is the most difficult song he wrote.
Smash a guitar
/kloc-in the summer of 0/964, the band "The Who" with guitarist Peter Townshend as the core began to tour, and Peter Townshend's whirlwind guitar skills pushed the atmosphere to a climax. Guitar seems to be his weapon, hitting the ceiling and speakers, and finally being smashed to pieces. It was also that week that Who released the single "I am the Face", and their influence began to sweep the world from London.
Bob Dylan opens the era of folk songs
On July 25th, 1965, Newport Folk Music Festival was held in Rhode Island. Only 24-year-old Bob Dylan wore black pants and a green shirt and performed on the stage with an electric guitar. This unsuccessful performance ushered in the era of folk rock.
"Travel" Music Festival
"Trips" Music Festival has made San Francisco the base camp of psychedelic rock and drug culture. The brains who died of gratitude described their live music like this: "Sometimes we will play for hours, or for ten minutes, and then faint on the stage."
Beach boy classic "pet's voice" comes out.
1966 65438+ 10, the beach boy went to Japan for a tour, and his brain had to return to China because of schizophrenia. He was inspired to write the album "The Voice of a Pet" when he was recovering from illness at home.
The opening of the "gate"
1In August, 966, jim morrison was a film major at the University of California. He was fascinated by poetry and rock music. This summer, jim morrison and his classmate Ray Manzarek formed the band Gate. They wrote such famous songs as "The End" and "My Fire".
The hippie movement entered the room.
1967 65438+1October 14, some young students got together for the first time in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. They express their opinions freely, including in the form of music. This loose gathering continued, and later formed the "hippie movement", which spread all over the world. This summer is called "Summer of Love".
Alisha Franklin's amazing reputation studio
1967 65438+ 10, 24-year-old aretha franklin came to the famous recording studio in Alabama, USA, sat at the piano and began to sing a blues song. Two hours later, she recorded the title song of her first album at Atlantic Records. Drummer Roger Hawkins said, "I've never seen anyone convey so much emotion."
The Beatles' new world
1February, 967 10, The Beatles began to record the album "Colonel Pepa's Lonely Mind Club Band", which is the pinnacle of the whole rock music history. This is the first time in British history that two four-channel recorders have been used to record, and all the songs have been given a complete concept. This record redefines the meaning of rock music records and ranks among the best in a series of evaluations in later generations.
Jimmy lit the guitar at the Monterey Music Festival.
1967 June 16 turn 18 This famous music festival was made into a documentary and released on DVD. Hendricks plucked the strings with his teeth. At the end of the song "Wild Things", he poured the liquid from the lighter on the guitar and lit it.
Xanadu laurel valley
Laurel Valley is the Peach Blossom Garden of Hollywood. In the summer of 1968, it became a commune of rock youth and a hotbed of originality. Joni Mitchell has a house there, which she calls a hippie paradise. Crosby and Steels Nash were singing in her bedroom, which was also passed away.
Love and peace!
Woodstock Music Festival was held on a 600-acre farm near New York State from August 1969 15 to August 17. This music festival has attracted 400,000 people and is the most influential music festival in the history of rock music. Despite the heavy rain, mud and chaos, it still played a positive role in spreading ideals and became a topic that rock fans in later generations talked about.
San Francisco catastrophe
On February 6th, 1969, 1969, the Rolling Stones celebrated the success of their American tour with a celebrity charity concert. As a result, the free concert turned into a disaster, and the hired security guards openly took drugs and beat the audience. A scuffle began and a fan died on the spot.
Rolling Stone reached its peak.
1972 In May, the Rolling Stones released two albums, Exile Street, which was the pinnacle of the Rolling Stones. Although the personal life of the band members was in trouble during this period, their superstar status was unshakable.
David bowie initiated the glamour rock trend.
1On July 8th, 972, Beethoven's Ode to Joy was playing in the Royal Concert Hall in London. A beam of red light hit the stage, and people saw a man with orange hair and a red and green spacesuit appear on the stage. "Hello, everyone," the guy who looks like an alien said in a soft and elegant tone. "I am" (Ziggy Stardust). "This" Song of Stardust "is David Bowie. The concert featured enchanting and neutral costumes, which started the trend of enchanting rock.
Led zeppelin ruled the United States.
1973 from may to July, "LedZeppelin" began her first concert tour in the United States, which also marked the full-scale invasion of heavy metal rock in the United States. It should be said that the American music market from 65438 to 0973 belongs to "led zeppelin".
CBGB opens punk era.
1975 In the summer, CBGB, a rock club located in the center of new york, gradually became lively. RAMONES, "Blondie", "TalkingHeads" and "Television" also began to perform here, so CBGB also developed into the source of American punk movement.
Bob Mali became famous overnight.
1975 July 18 held a concert in London that night, which made the reggae singer a world superstar. Many fans tried to rush through obstacles and squeeze into the stage, and the scene was once chaotic. When Mali sang his new song "No Woman, No Cry", it got the strongest response from the audience. Since then, this song has become a household name in Mali. That night, reggae became a global music phenomenon, and bob marley became the music notation from the third world countries.
Springsteen's important performance
1In August, 1975, springsteen, an American blue-collar rock representative, invited 1000 insiders to watch their "bottom line" in a bar in new york, and then released their third album Born to run, which made them famous all over the world. Springsteen had to stop performing because of food poisoning, but this performance laid the foundation for their success.
Band farewell performance
From 1967 to 1976, Dylan toured with the band and lived in Woodstock for a while. 1976165438+1October 25th, the last performance in Los Angeles was attended by guests, from Bob Dylan and neil young to eric clapton and Van Morrison.
British punk storm
From 1976 to 12, "Sex Pistols" toured Britain for the first time. They attracted many young people with excessive energy and nowhere to vent with cynical power, thus opening the storm of British punk movement. Before this performance, they just released their first single "Anarchy in Britain" under EMI, which was rejected by BBC because of its bold content.
P-funk's national tour
In the winter of 1976 *, the national tour of P-Funk led by george clinton was the most fashionable and daring rock tour in the whole 1970' s. At the climax of each performance, a spaceship with a cost of $6.5438+100,000 would land on the stage. P-Funk integrates surreal alien association into Funk music, which has become a major feature.
Dance music dominates the charts and sets off a disco craze.
1977 On New Year's Eve, the disco dance wave triggered by donna sommer swept the United States. Studio 54 in new york has gathered many popular symbols, including Calvin Klein, andy warhol, the lead singer of the Rolling Stones mick jagger and Rod Stewart. Donna's 1975 album "Love Your Baby" has created a disco trend.
Freewood Mack's 1970s rock album.
The rock album "Rumors" by the Foley Mike band was finally released after a difficult period. At that time, the band was in a difficult period, and the members divorced and dissolved, which was a mess. In such a bad situation, the soul figure Nick spent one night writing the pop dance "Dream" and recorded it on a small tape recorder, thus laying the foundation for the birth of this album. (1977 February)
The Decline of John Lennon
1980 10 February 10, John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono Lennon recorded Yoko Ono Lennon's song "Walking". 10, they left the recording studio and rushed to the apartment near new york Central Park. Just as they were about to enter the apartment gate, there was a cry of "Mr. Lennon" behind them, and then david chapman, a crazy fan, shot him four times. John Lennon was shot and fell in a pool of blood, and then he was taken to the hospital and died. He is forty years old.
MTV invaded the United States
At that time, because the songs of British band Duran Duran were banned from American radio, they knew nothing about MTV at first and became the first band to be exposed to this modern technology. In order to compete with "Cultural Club" and "Human Alliance", they have to rely on TV music channels for publicity. This attempt also made their album a great success. Within a year, the MTV audience in the United States also surged from 2.5 million to 9.3 million. (* 1 981August1)
"Moonwalk" is drifting away.
1983 May 16, in order to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Motown, Michael Jackson was invited to perform. His "Moonwalk" made his debut as a single BillieJean in this performance. This novel dance step suddenly became popular all over the world, and established Michael Jackson's position as the "king of pop". Then in June 5438+February of that year, the album Thriller broke the record of record sales, stayed on the charts for 37 weeks, and gave birth to five champion singles.
U2 American Red Rock Park Concert
1983' s performance in American Rocky Mountain Red Rock National Park became U2' s most successful outdoor performance. More than 9,000 seats and the natural beauty of national parks provide the most spectacular stage for their music. On that day, they sang "Sunday Bloody Sunday", which also became the symbolic song of U2' s resistance to violence.
Madonna's shocking behavior
1984 September 14, MTV, eager to get rid of the shadow of the Grammy Award, decided to expand its influence and award the first music video award. Madonna was invited to attend the award ceremony and performed the song "Like a Virgin" released in the same year. At the performance site, the TV crew was stunned by Madonna's shocking performance of rolling on the floor in a wedding dress. Madonna's unbridled behavior at the MTV awards ceremony has been greatly criticized, but many teenagers are still fascinated by Madonna's style.
Rap surfaced.
In the summer of 1985, BeastieBoys and Run-DMC jointly held a concert tour. They just released the albums "LicensedtoIll" and "Raising" respectively, which are the most influential rap music records in the history of the 1980s. This concert tour is the first large-scale public performance of rap music, and rap, a black underground music, has surfaced and become the object of people's attention.
"Saving Life" Large Rock Concert
1985 July 13 A large-scale rock concert called "Saving Life" was held simultaneously in London, England and Philadelphia, USA. This charity performance raised more than $50 million for African victims.
Beast Boy and running DMC tourism
1986, Run DMC released a commercially successful album Raising Hell, and the sales of Licensed to Ill in Beast Boy soared, which will soon become the highest-selling rap album in the whole 1980s. So in the summer of 1987, they started touring together. "It was that tour that brought hip-hop out of town. No matter you are white or Japanese, you can't refuse."
Noun (abbreviation of Noun) is the pioneer of street rap.
1In February, 989, the band N.W.A released the album Straight Out of Compton. This rap record, with a production cost of only 8,000 yuan, contains a lot of street language, which is spicy, vivid and all the rage. Although the Federal Bureau of Investigation sent a letter to the record company to protest against the fate of N.W.A' s inciting people's anti-police sentiment, which restricted the radio broadcast of the record, by the end of 1989, the sales volume of the record was still as high as 1 100 million.
The Voice of Seattle sounded the horn.
On August 199 1 day, Nivana recorded The Taste of Young Elves, which completely changed Nivana's fate. Because this song is full of arrogant and unadorned rebellious colors, it has been warmly welcomed by people as never before. Subsequently, the album "NeverMind" played the horn of the Voice of Seattle, and a large number of bands from Seattle, including PearlJam and SoundGarden, changed the declining rigidity of rock music.
Battle of the Rap King
1994165438+1On October 30th, the rapper tupac shakur was shot and wounded by robbers. He believes that the messenger behind the scenes is his good friend, another rapper B.I.G From that day on, two of the best rappers in the rap world launched a personal attack war, which ended in the death of one of Tupac's friends.
The radio commander is getting better.
1In the autumn of 996, the British band Radio head began to record the album OKComputer. The band members who had already released two albums at that time faced all kinds of puzzles. They hid in an old house15th century near Bath, England, and held it for nearly a year before handing over their works. This record is full of confusion and inexplicable sadness in the digital age and has won unanimous praise all over the world. Since then, music from Britain has once again risen collectively as a group in the world.
The rise of women's power
1In the summer of 997, the first Lilith Fair Music Festival broke the myth that female singers were not as good as male singers. The first music festival lasted for 37 days, and all the singers were women. By 1999, there were 250 female singers participating in the three music festivals, and the ticket income reached 65 million dollars. Although the music festival closed after three sessions, it had a far-reaching influence in the history of music.
Even white people rap.
1in the summer of 998, Eminem released his first album LP of Mothers, in which the song My name is, which created a precedent for white rap music. Since then, rap bands are no longer exclusive to blacks.
Napster leads the internet age
1In the autumn of 998, sean fanning was still a student of Northwest University. Under his idea, he established Napster website, aiming at providing free music downloads through the Internet. This novel way of music communication is popular all over the world, and people can easily get all kinds of music through the Internet. By the summer of 2000, the registered users of Napster had reached 58 million, and 450 million songs had been downloaded, so Napster was also besieged by traditional record companies.
Teenager idols dominate.
In March 2000, the boy band Nsync released the album "No Conditions Attached", which sold 2.4 million copies in the first week, pushing the idol trend in youth pop music that began in the 1990s to the peak.
In memory of "9 1 1"
On September 2 1 day, 200 1, U2, neil young and other dozens of singers held a commemorative concert of "September 1 1", which raised 200 million US dollars in donations. After that, paul mccartney and other superstars held a series of commemorative concerts and donated all the ticket proceeds to the families of the victims of "9. 1 1".
IPod revolutionized the recording industry.
200 1 10 year 10 On October 23rd, Apple introduced the latest mp3 player iPod, which can record 10000 songs (the latest iPod can record10000 songs today), thus changing the way people listen to music.
New Utopia
On June 2, 20021-23, the first Bonnaroo Music Festival was held in Tennessee. All the participants were grassroots bands, and the organizers didn't do any publicity. But its reputation spread like wildfire, becoming the latest holy land for American music lovers.