... today. I will first summarize The Beatles early years, to give a foundation for their later music. John Lennon, who is considered the founding1 member, was born in Liverpool England on October 9, 1940. As a child he was a trouble-maker and poor at school. However what he lacked in mathematical skill, ... Presley was a much tamer performer after being enlisted the Army. Lennon was quoted as saying, "Elvis died as soon as he joined the Army". Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis were struggling with legal problems, and Richie Valens, Buddy Holly, and The Big Bopper had died in a plane crash. ...

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... kid's manic appreciation for this new genre. Parents didn't know how to react when their children adopted new clothing styles and slang and hung posters of Chuck Berry on their walls. This new crop of performers, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, etc., acted very different on stage than the "artist's- many of the adults had grown up listening ... , though. Many white performers, such as Buddy Holley, Bill Haley, and Jerry Lee Lewis, played as vital of roles in the development of rock music as the black performers like Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, and Little Richar...

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... . " I have had to remember that rule several times during my career," states Peggy Lee. Janis Joplin, another well known female artist, was born January 19, 1943 and died October 4, 1970. During that time, she led a triumphant and tumultuous life blessed by an innate talent to convey ... powerful emotion through heart stomping rock-and-roll singing (Joplin 2). Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas, where she followed artistic interests drawn by her parents Seth and Dorothy Joplin. Janis began singing in a coffee house. ... sixties female musician is Joni Mitchell. Joni Mitchell is...

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... Glamour in the 80's, no American institution has ever undergone such radical transformation in such a short time. Women's suffrage was not until 1920. Chuck Berry started it; Elvis Presley put a face on it. In the 1950's, Rock n' Roll was born. It emerged from rhythm and blues, a kind of music similar to jazz. This kind of music attracted teenagers. Disk jockey Alan Freed ... was probably the last gasp of Rock n' Roll. But Punk appeal was so anti everything it put itself out when it became popular culture. In the late 80's, MTV was born and corporations seized full control of Rock n' Ro...

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... and shock audiences. Nobody ever saw behavior like his in the 50's. He was the first to perform on stage and then set his piano on fire."" Jerry Lee was born on September 29th, 1935 at Turtle Lake on The Calhoun Plantation. He grew up on his parent's farm in the small town Ferriday, Louisiana. Jerry Lee is the second son ... time and combine them to create a style completely his own. "He was a creator in a world of imitators- said one fan. That is why Jerry Lee Lewis will be remembered with Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley, as one of the true fathers of Rock & Roll....

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... , just as rock has flourished with its change, so has its listening counterpart in society. The first sounds of rock and roll were heard in the 1950's when a man named Chuck Berry gave rock and roll its style and persona. This prototype sound had been evolved from previous era's folk music. His impact on society was rather interesting since he was ... . They were basically added to provide the artist with more than one way to produce a distinct sound. However, Bruce Springsteen still provided society with genuine power rock music. His song, Born in the U.S.A., brought about a wave of patr...

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... successfully sued in court, and won damages for songs they have written that were unfairly made into Rock and Roll songs without their knowledge or permission. Two such cases are Chuck Berry's, "Sweet Little Sixteen", and Howlin' Wolf's, "Killing Floor"." (Lee) Music was a very important to the slaves to keep them going and "music continues to play an important role in ... and segregation, some how a beautiful sound of entertainment evolved. With the help of the African culturally influenced beats form drums, rhythms, and themes of songs a great and powerful style was born which was ado...

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... . (When I say "Elvis" I refer not only to the singer/songwriter but I"m also trying to find a general term for all the names that contributed to the birth of Rock and Roll -> Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, etc ). All of a sudden, people (especially young people) started buying records and then they started going to concerts; this making them wanting desperately to get their ... and almost infinite much stronger. In 1985 one of the biggest stadium concerts was held in England to help raise founds for this very important AIDS foundation. "Live AID" was born. It hosted some of the biggest na...

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... a whole new clientele. Wheatley's six-month-old Last Vestige site, for example, draws about 10 email requests a day, nearly half from outside the U.S., including Japan, Canada and Europe. Ditto for Chuck Haley, the mind behind the Flower Stop site. While the Colorado Springs florist concedes his online effort can't compete with big advertising-rich floral sites, he is still bully on ... ...

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... Sullivan Show. The british Invasion was influenced by American recordings of British Pop Music. This period confirmed rock music internantionally .The baetles combined the guitar based rock and roll of Chuck berry and buddy holly with the artistry of the tin pan alley style.(Encarta) The animals were another major band ,they blended blues and r&b music. The rolling Stones blended aspects ... ...

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... and who the mythical musicians of the rock music were? Let's flashback to 50's when rock music started to be showed off. Rock and roll had been first played by Chuck Berry in 1955. Berry was a black man. Even though a resistance against black musicians by the white people, the music industry soon understood that there was a huge place for black musicians ... ...

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... its racial controversy. When Rock and Roll was the biggest trend not everyone could enjoy it due to the racial problems. Since rock was invented by an African American named Chuck Berry, white people at that time disheartened the music and it could never really spread throughout the world. At the beginning rock would be played in very few radio stations ... ...

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... a kid looking up to me, life ain't nothin' but bitches and money" appalled many listeners with its profoundness and explicitness. In response to the controversy risen by Rap, KRS frontman Chuck D once memorably described rap music as "black people's CNN" - the only medium in which black voices could tell the truth in a white-dominated country". As Rap's controversial subjects and lyrics ... ...

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... , both Black and White. Nearly three-quarters of rap music is sold not to Black, but White teens. What values, if any, are the worlds teenagers deriving from this music? Jeremy Leland stated in 1993, "the real problems are outside the music, not within." This statement can be backed up by looking outside America, to Mongolia, where "MTV is available on ... ...

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... Child, and India Aire. Other styles of music influenced by blacks are: a symphonic work composed by William Grant Still entitled "Afro-American Symphony." Rock-n-roll music (from its beginnings with Chuck Berry, to today's Michael Jackson), Hip-Hop music (with Sean P. Diddy Combs and Mary J. Blige topping the list, and the highly controversial style of Rap. But please keep in mind ... ...

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... was blacks' music at the time. This could have been a main reason for why it was first a shocking type of music to parents and conservatisms. Stars like Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry in the 50's used the blues and incorporated a faster beat and aggression which changed it from blues to the art known as rock (Wick 43). Teenagers across America first ... ...

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... the modern orchestra" as Felix Weingartner called him. Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is probably the most cherished classical music figure. This child prodigy was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756. The son of an esteemed composer and violinist, Mozart literally began his music career at the astonishing age of ... was the supreme architect of music; His genius found expression in the structural type of the sonata and the symphony. Joseph Haydn Joseph Haydn born in 1732 in the village in lower Austria of Rohrau was a son of a wheelwright. He was nicknamed the father of classical style, ...

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... was that he never had to be pushed to excel in his gifts. He always wanted and longed for perfection. This powerful mental factor was born with him and allowed Johann Sebastian Bach to be the one Bach that will be remembered until the end of time. If this one man had ... creations. The world would have lost those emotional ties that Bach brings to each individual through this art that is called music. Johann Sebastian Bach was born on Saturday March 21st 1685 in the town of Eisencach, Germany. He was then baptized in St. George's Cathedral, also known as St. Georgen Kirche ... , his godf...

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... type of work for women was extremely rare (Salm, 1). It is said that Caccini was the first famous woman composer known to history (Mann, 27). She was an Italian composer born in 1587 and died about 1640. This composer came from a family of talented musicians. In fact, her father was Guilio Caccini, a well-known musician and composer. One of his great ... first in history for women. She was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome, for her musical compositions (Krull and Hewitt, 79). Boulanger was born into a French family in 1893. She, like Caccini, was born into a musically talented fam...

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... . Among them "Gugliemo Tell" ("William Tell") Overture, The Lone Ranger Theme, and the Opera "ll' Barbiere di Siviglia" ("The Barber of Seville"). Rossini was born in Pesaro, Italy in 1792, into a family of musicians. His father was a trumpet player and his mother a singer. When Rossini was 6 his father was ... a wealthy man in Passy, France in 1868. The next piece was "Concerto in B-flat Major, op.4 no.6." by G.F. Handel. George Friederich Handel was born in Halle, Prussia (Germany) in 1685. In 1703 he intended to study law, but at the age of eight, he was appointed as a violinist-compo...

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... type of work for women was extremely rare (Salm, 1). It is said that Caccini was the first famous woman composer known to history (Mann, 27). She was an Italian composer born in 1587 and died about 1640. This composer came from a family of talented musicians. In fact, her father was Guilio Caccini, a well-known musician and composer. One of his great ... first in history for women. She was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome, for her musical compositions (Krull and Hewitt, 79). Boulanger was born into a French family in 1893. She, like Caccini, was born into a musically talented fam...

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... music was conceived, he made it something that mattered, could take a stand, and "insinuated rock and roll into the realm of art."" John Lennon was born on October 9th, 1940 at 6:30am in the middle of a German air strike to Alfred, a ship dishwasher, and Julia, a movie usherette turned housewife ... At about the same time they were gaining success, John's girlfriend Cynthia got pregnant, and they were married. On April 8, 1963, Julian Lennon was born. After the legendary comment, "We're bigger than Jesus,"" the Beatles last tour was in 1966. The Beatles manager, Brian Epstein, after bein...

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... remained the same. They used music for economic gain in nightclubs, corner halls, publishing, and recording. One of the greatest African American female blues singers was Bessie Smith. She was born on April 15, 1894 or 1898. The exact date is unknown. Her father William was a preacher, who died when Bessie was very young. This left her mother to raise seven ... a main source of family entertainment, and the creation of jazz music. New Orleans, Louisiana became the first great jazz center. One of the greatest female, African American jazz singers was born in New Orleans, a few years befo...

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... . Undoubtedly one of the most accomplished musicians of all time and the forefront leader of the jazz world. Duke didn't always have music on his mind though. Duke, Born Edward Kennedy Ellington was born April 29th ,1899 the son of James William Ellington and Daisy Kennedy Ellington. They lived In Washington, moving out of the deep south just prior to Dukes birth ... agent of his own band which enabled him to place the band in the best locations without the heavy fees. On March 11th, 1919 his son Mercer Kennedy Ellington was born. In 1923 Duke and his wife finally left Washington and wen...

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... played which was called jazz music. Still today he is known for his music and being one of the pioneer's of jazz and big band. In The Beginning Louis was born in the Storyville District of New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 4, 1901. He always celebrated his birthday on July 4, 1900 because his family told him that. It wasn't until he died ... on July 6, 1971 that people found out his real birth date. His father Willie, a laborer left the family soon after Louis was born. His mother Mayane, was a domestic servant and a part time prostitute. She left Louis and his sister Beatrice, also cal...

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