... rolling stones was a dramatic and electrifying show man on and off of stage. Janis Joplin a hard drinking singer whose powerful interpretations of classic blues songs captured her to the Superstardome. The last true hippie marched out of Max Yasgur's muddy pasture more than 25 years ago. During those ... of pasture. Yasgur met Lang and as soon as Lang saw the sloping bowl, a little rise for the stage, and a lake in the background. The deal was done. The concert date was approaching fast and a week before the festival, Yasgur's farm didn't look much like a concert site. "It was like they ...

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... and the one and only, Jimmy Page. The Yardbirds had ever growing popularity and soon replaced the Rolling Stones as the house band at the widely known Crawdaddy Club in London, England. The members wanted to take their music in different directions so the band dismembered in July ... was born on August 20th, 1948 in Bromwich England. He sang lead vocals for the group. He became know as the "wild man of blues form the black country- (Miller,194) "Robert Plant, wooly, handsome in and obscenely rugged way, sang as if the songs had to fight their way ... You could tell that Led Zeppelin ha...

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... music to spread easier. More people were concentrated in one area and living in the cities enabled easier means of obtaining transporting to other parts of the country. The move into the cities, along with the invention of the electric guitar, changed the face of blues forever and paved the way for rock and roll. (2, 3, 4, 7) After World War Two, the United States came out the ... the nation causing a growth spurt in population known as the "Baby Boom" and many of these families moved to communities on the outskirts of the cities known as suburbs. These suburbs consisted of a house for ...

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... Despite his premature death in London before his twenty eighth birthday, Jimi Hendrix produced an innovative playing style that has influenced a multitude of later musicians and revolutionized rock and roll music during the 1960's. James Marshall Hendrix grew up as deprived insignificant child but would eventually ... age sixteen Hendrix bought his first guitar for five dollars. It was a secondhand acoustic model that was a balancing element to his scarred childhood of his parents divorce, his unpredictable schooling and his mother's death in 1958. In 1959, Hendrix joined his first band, ...

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... Despite his premature death in London before his twenty eighth birthday, Jimi Hendrix produced an innovative playing style that has influenced a multitude of later musicians and revolutionized rock and roll music during the 1960's. James Marshall Hendrix grew up as deprived insignificant child but would eventually ... age sixteen Hendrix bought his first guitar for five dollars. It was a secondhand acoustic model that was a balancing element to his scarred childhood of his parents divorce, his unpredictable schooling and his mother's death in 1958. In 1959, Hendrix joined his first band, ...

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... after the cold war conflicts ended. Rock and roll began in the United States; the music was influenced by other cultures and musical traditions like gospel music, blues, country- and western, and folk music. The term rock music was known to the music style after the 1959. R&B was mostly influenced by African American. ... and other instruments were invented. Many people are life is influenced by the type of music that they hear. I think that people would be interested in finding out what made the people like rock and roll, jazz, and the blues. In the 1950s, World War Two in people starte...

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... mortgaged their farm, to buy Jerry Lee his first piano which was a Stark upright. Soon Jerry Lee discovered a new type of music; his own! "I'll tell ya, I started playing piano--I learned to play in two weeks." He started frequenting Haney's Big House with his cousin Jimmy Lee Swaggart. Haney's was a meeting place for blacks. They gathered there for parties. Jerry Lee's uncle ... , Lee Calhoun, owned the place so Jerry Lee and his cousin would hide behind the bar and watch the plantation workers dancing around to the blues. Haney's was the place that made Jerry Lee an outstanding perform...

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... the recognition they deserved, but there are some artists that stand out to be just as influential that maybe did not get they eye of the public as easy as those guys. Carl Perkins is one musician that had a few hits but never really gained the fame and fortune ... and his other brother Clayton all formed a band that played hillbilly songs. Carl made the band special though, because he was knowledgeable of the African American rhythm and blues techniques. After hearing an Elvis Presley recording on the radio he decided he wanted to have a musical career. He then left to ... Perkins, Pres...

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... formal events. The most common was a strapless, tight-bodice, full bouffant, dress that came in a range of colors of blues to reds. The dress was again incomplete if it was worn without gloves. The evening style of glove was made of satin or camisole, and came in a large range of colors that matched the dress. These gloves were no longer then the elbow and no shorter ... 's suits were usually dark colors that complemented each other. On the weekends or hang around the house days the male was seen wearing slacks, Bermuda shorts, a tee shirt, slip-on shoes, or a pair of Levis. By the end o...

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... orange juice, is unhappy. At school the rambunctious boy gets dirty, plays baseball while his sister and her friends, in little skirts, play house with dolls, a miniature stove, washing machine and car. When he masturbates, he is told it is ok, when she, at six, is caught ... if you just do this, you"ll be happy, if you just buy this soap, this house, this washer and dryer. Then you will be a good American, and America salutes you. The Image of Rosie the Rivetter was replaced by Rosie the aproned bed-folder and dinner-maker. People felt stuck. ... supposed to do? Rock and Roll was an...

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... . Eric Clapton also sings about drugs, much like Pink Floyd. In the song Cocaine he shamelessly promotes the use of cocaine. "If you got bad news, You want to shake them blues, Cocaine. When your day is done, and you want to run, Cocaine. If your date is gone, and you want to ride on, Cocaine. ... Don't forget this fact, You can't get him back, Cocaine. Lost my house, lost my wife, lost my car, Cocaine." Clapton ... definitely went through some hardships in his life. He was kicked out of college, divorced, his son died as a child. His music career has had many up and down times in ... a...

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