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15 de jan. de 2020 · The inductees were announced for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2020 on Wednesday morning (Jan. 15), with Depeche Mode, The Doobie Brothers, Whitney Houston, Nine Inch Nails, The ...
HALL OF FAME ESSAY. The word pioneers is regularly used to describe the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and with good reason: The band—which today consists of Anthony Kiedis on vocals; Michael Balzary, long known to fans as Flea, on bass; Chad Smith on drums; and recent addition Josh Klinghoffer on guitar—birthed a blend of punk, funk, and hip-hop ...
If rock & roll is rooted in teenage passion, teenage rebellion, teenage restlessness, teenage sexuality — then Etta James is a rock & roller to the bone. Starting out as a teenage phenomenon in, the Fifties, she sang with a raw, unharnessed energy that matched her male counterparts. Her first hit, in fact, was an in-your-face reply to Hank ...
In Memoriam: 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Dennis Thompson earned the nickname “Machine Gun” through his aggressive drumming with Detroit’s Motor City 5. Punk and heavy metal progenitors, the MC5 kicked out the jams and politicized all bystanders with their unapologetic hard driving rock & roll and antiestablishment message.
HALL OF FAME ESSAY. “If you’re looking for trouble,” Elvis Presley warned the audience at the opening of his December 3rd, 1968, television special, “you’ve come to the right place.”. What viewers heard that night was unadulterated Elvis, the archetypal rock and roll singer, not the Hollywood movie star. The leather-clad Presley ...
HALL OF FAME ESSAY. In the 1980s the ultra-modern soundscapes of Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox, a.k.a. Eurythmics, were omnipresent on radio, MTV, and in dance clubs. Stewart and Lennox managed to combine an insatiable quest for growth, change, and at times radical experimentation, with an unerring ability to craft extraordinary catchy radio ...
HALL OF FAME ESSAY. Howlin’ Wolf was larger life in every respect. As an entertainer, as an individual, and as a bluesman, he was outsized, unpredictable, and always his own man. He was a great blues singer who possessed that quality of egocentric self-absorption that is the mark of the true showman. To many people this may seem contradictory ...
