70's Rock

70 's Rock

70's music made rock more profitable than ever! Bruce Springstein brought a more energetic style of rock. Bruce Springstein's rock was influenced by 1950's blues. Most of the 60's and 70's rock influenced rock in the 80's.

In the early 1970's, the popular mainstream was dominated by the Rolling Stones, the Eagles, and Chicago. Each group made lots of albums and sold millions of copies. The heavy-metal style was pioneered by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple which all featured aggressive guitar-latent songs. Some heavy-metal groups wear heavy makeup and costumes. For example, the group Kiss wears lots of makeup and weird costumes. The most popular dance music in the 1970's was disco. In New York, it drew up black popular music and easier rhythms by adding steady bass-drum beats. Disco had a huge impact on rock music. About 1976, punk rock originated in New York City and London. Punk-rock music was raw, abrasive, and fast. London punk groups included the Clash and the Police while New York punk and new wave music included the Blonde, Talking heads, and Parti Smith. The music business, in the United States, had become more centralized in the 1970's. Music artists sold millions of albums in those 10 years. Rock and roll developed a lot over that period of time.

During the 70's rock continued to do well. Rock started to run into other music and was a big influence to teens all over the world. Blues were still the main foundation of most rock and roll but disco ruled the 70's. Disco was rarely preformed live and most rock stars used tapes and records. In the 70's people thought that rock had lost it's originality. Some young rock artists had a hard time to make much money. Punk rock made people want to make music videos. Some star Puck rocker were Led Zeppelin and The Whoo. Michael Jackson made a couple music videos. Michael Jackson's music video the " Thriller" became one of the best selling record album of all time.

As the 70's came knew bands evolved and rocked the house. These knew bands reinforced the rock and roll world. During this time rock was still on top and was the most wanted music in the American states.

Led Zepplin combined the power and intensity of hard rock with the elegancy of brittish folk music. By combining these the band brought more fans to rock in the 70's. Unfortunately the group broke up in 1980. Led Zepplin was formed in 1968. The group included Jimmy Page on guitar, John Paul Jones as bassist, Robert Plant as vocals, and the drummer was John Bonham. The group name, Led Zepplin, was sugested by Who drummer, Kieth Moon. Keith Moon said it as a joke, he thought they would go down like a zepplin full of lead. Led Zepplin was considered heavy metal for their time. When the drummer died on September 1980 the group decided to do solo stuff. Jimmy Page made it big with other groups and solo albums and now with Puff Daddy, "Come With Me". Puff Daddy redid a Led Zeppelin song called "Kashmir" this song is on the Godzilla song track.