The band Led Zeppelin consisted of four members, Jimmy Page (guitarist), Robert Plant (vocalist), John Paul Jones (bassist & keyboardist), and John Bonham (drummer). Before the English group formed, Page was looking for new members to join his band, the New Yardbirds, in which he came across Robert Plant in 1968 after Terry Reed (singer) recommended the blues singer, since he was unavailable and could not join. At the time, Plant was performing with the group Hobbs Tweedle, where Jimmy Page observed the vocalists unusual style. In turn, after inviting the singer to join the New Yardbirds, Robert recommended the drummer, John Bonham who was also a member of Hobbs Tweedle, to join the group. When Page was looking for new members, he had chosen
John Paul Jones to help put together the new group, due to his innovative experience with arranging and directing music. After forming the band and playing some concerts, the group decided to change the name New Yardbirds to something else, since it was just to fulfill performance commitments which were booked before the original Yardbirds disbanded. Of course, the band changed its name to Led Zeppelin as a joke, after the drummer from The Who, Keith Moon, commented, “you’ll go over like a lead zeppelin”. In October 1968, Led Zeppelin recorded its first album, which took them about nine days to complete; barely enough studio time to record. Within a month of their first appearance, the band had signed with Atlantic records, who thought it was the best rock and roll band of its type that the producers have ever heard. Plant and Page borrowed several sounds from American blues, classic rock, and folk artists, such as, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Joni Mitchell, and created their own style of music by playing naturally/improvising. According to some critics, the band was well known for their skill in improvisation, that it was their “trademark”; however, there were some that did not take a liking to the group and viewed them as unappealing. As the negative reviews kept coming in, the more fans sent protests letters to the music critics, bought more concert tickets, and more records. By 1975, Led Zeppelin was the first band in history to have six albums on the record charts at once; they were the first and only band to ever sell more records like the Beatles, which are still being sold today in huge quantities all over the world, it is estimated that they have sold over 300 million records worldwide. However, throughout the 12 years Led Zeppelin was together, they endured some hardships/tragedies. In August 1975, Robert Plant was in a car accident in Greece, where he was vacationing with his family. The incident left the vocalist injured, Plant’s ankle was smashed and left him immobilized, which kept him offstage for almost two years. Once Plant had physically healed, he returned back into performing, but in 1977 during the band’s first tour to America, Robert had received tragic news from his wife, that their son had passed away from a serious respiratory infection. In 1979, Plant agreed to return to the stage even though he never recovered from his loss. Towards the fall of 1980, while rehearsing, John Bonham was consuming alcohol and after passed out, in which he regurgitated and asphyxiated in his sleep. By December of 1980, Led Zeppelin decided to disband and issued a statement that they could not go on as they were.
Not only that, he played for great stars like Ike and Tina Turner as well as Sam Cooke. The year 1965 was when things really started to take flight for Hendrix’s music career. He played for more bands and artists such as Joey Dee. Hendrix played for the Starlighters at the time as well. During the next three years, Hendrix played for many major music artists and decided to make his own band he named Jimmy James And The Blue Flames. One day, while performing, former bassist of the band The Animals, Chas Chandler watched him and offered to be his manager in mid 1966 (Rockhall).
Many times, people have very different ideas about what makes an icon. Our icons may be singers, dancers, athletes, actors or politicians. We may not even know what the criteria would be for an icon, but we know one when we see it. One of the greatest American icons in history is the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival. To say that Woodstock isn’t an icon would be like saying that the music wasn’t a dynamic character in the movie “Star Wars” or “The Phantom of the Opera”. An Icon must encompass a distinct ideology, and nothing ushered in our generation’s journey to the end of the innocence like Woodstock.
distant as one might think. Nearly all music from the '60s and '70s was bred
Many people from the 1900’s contributed to the evolution of the history of rock and roll. However, Jimi Hendrix was the rock legend who changed the way music was made and he raised the bar for the rest of the music industry. Jimi was born in 1942, in Seattle, Washington, he had a difficult childhood, being raised by a young mom who had Jimi at seventeen and a dad who eventually left and started another family, he was often left living with relatives. He only saw his mom a few times before she eventually died in 1958. In many ways music became a sanctuary for Jimi since he grew up not having much. Jimi loved blues and rock and roll and when he was sixteen Jimi got his first acoustic guitar and taught himself how to play. Shortly after he began
The members included Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Larry Van Kriedt, Dave Evans, and Colin Burgess. The people who wanted the most success out of them were Australia’s legendary roadie Ray Arnold and his partner Alan Kissack. The two men convinced “Chequers” entertainment manager Gene Pierson to let the band play at the popular Sydney nightclub in 1973. Colin Burgess was the first member fired, and several bassists and drummers passed through the band the next year. The Young brothers decided that Evans was not a suitable frontman for the group, because they felt he was more of a glam rocker. It was Gene Pierson who arranged for Bon Scott from “Fraternity” to join them as the lead singer. (Paul Sutcliffe, Pg. 34, P.2)
Many people and many styles of music influenced Rock and Roll. The styles included Blues, Jazz, Gospel, Bluegrass, Boogie-Woogie, and Rockabilly. Each was a major factor into the introduction of a new style of music called Rock ‘N’ Roll.
At the start of this class, I did not think that I would learn as much as I did. Just last night my wife and I were watching “The Voice” and someone was singing “I’ll Be There.” I told her that was a song by The Jackson 5. She disagreed with me and told me that Mariah Carey had sung that song. I looked it up and we were both right. I went onto tell her that I was more right because The Jackson 5 sang it first. It got me thinking about this class and how I catch myself thinking about the history of songs whenever I hear them on the radio or in a movie.
II. Second I will tell you with more detail the numerous events of the 60’s that shaped the way the music industry was ran and the way rock music sounded.
The Yardbirds are famous for acquiring some of the greatest blues- based guitarists of their time period. The initial launch of this English band began in the early 1960’s. The Yardbirds weren’t as famous as other bands during the 60’s, but they established the initiation that the guitar would have on other musicians. The original band members of the Yardbirds were Keith Ref, Chris Dreja, Paul Samwell- Smith, Jim McCarty, and Anthony Topham (Wenner, Jann S.). They became known as “inventors,” one of their inventions being the “rave-up,” a blues rhythm. Throughout the 60’s, this became the groundwork for all of rock music. Other bands such as Led Zeppelin, Cream, and Jeff Beck Group are all derived from three of the most dominant guitarists: Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, and Jeff Beck. Many styles of music never would have been produced if it weren’t for the Yardbirds, these including: “garage- rock, hard- rock,...
During their time together, the members of The Beatles experimented with several different drugs. Drugs played a major role in the career of the Beatles as they influenced many of the songs as well as played a significant role on the bonding the band shared. Each band member had his own preference of drugs. However, the most significant impact drugs had on the Beatles were due from Preludin, cannabis, and LSD for reasons that were quite different.
The members of the group are Jimmy Page, born on April 9, 1944, Robert Plant, born on August 24, 1948, John Paul Jones, born on January 3, 1946, and John Bonham born on May 31, 1948.
In 1969 at Bethel, New York, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was 3 day event that was all about peace, love, music, and partying. It was a historic event that changed what was known back then as the “hippie movement”. At Woodstock there were many influential artists that performed at this huge event. It was a popular festival that led the later generations to embrace the sentiment and mood of what Woodstock came to represent. People didn’t realize (until later) how historic Woodstock really was. Woodstock was actually supposed to be a simple small event that would have around a only expected to have 5,000 people attend. It surpassed all expectations by having nearly 500,000 people attend. In the end it actually become a
The changes in rock and roll music reflected the mood of the population in the United States during the Vietnam War. Rock and roll, written as rock ‘n’ roll, music was fully born in the 1950’s and formed from electric blues and gospel music. Rock and roll is characterized by electric guitars, a strong rhythm and youth-orientated music. This music became popular because of the children of the decade. Parents called this type of music “noise.” While parents were listening to calm music, their children were listening to rock n roll.
Woodstock is a talked about legend. On August 16-18, 1969 Woodstock Music Festival took place on a patch of farmland in White Lake, a hamlet in the upstate New York town of Bethel. John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield and Michael Lang who all worked together to organize originally envisioned the festival as a way to raise funds to build a recording studio and rock-and-roll retreat near the town of Woodstock, New York. The longtime artists’ colony was already a home base for Bob Dylan and other musicians. Despite their relative inexperience, the young promoters managed to sign a roster of top acts, including the Jefferson Airplane, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival. Anyone with a big well known name to people no one had ever heard about was there to perform.
Mick Jagger was lead vocals and also played the harmonica. Jagger’s signature look has always been his lips, but they were often criticized. Keith Richards played the guitar and also sang. Charlie Watts was on drums, and Brian Jones played the guitar, harmonica, sitar, and sang. Two less popular members were Ian Stewart, on piano, and Bill Wyman, on bass guitar and sang backing vocals.