I nominate Meat Loaf into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for 2019. Marvin Lee Aday (nicknamed Meat Loaf) was born on September 27, 1947, in Dallas Texas. He made his debult on 1966 making him past the 25 year inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His mother was a school teacher and sang for the gospel. His father was a drinker and a policeman. Meat Loaf was differnet becuase he loved being on stage performing, and he did several times back in high school (White, 2017). He first started froming a band of his own with a variety of names including "Popcorn Blizzard", "Floating Circus", and "Meat Loaf Soul". The band breakup in 1969 (Rolling Stone). He had work with differnet people after his band broke up. First there was Shawn "Stoney" …show more content…
During the albums release in 1983, Meat Loaf was faced aganist 2 differnet lawsuits, which caused Meat Loaf filed for bankruptcy (Biography Meat Loaf, 2016). For the next several years Meat Loaf tried to make a comeback with his two albums "Bad Attitude" (1985) and "Blind Before I Stop" (1986). They both received mixed results (Biography Meat Loaf, 2016). Later, Meat Loaf made a full recovery and in 2010 he recorded his 11th studio album, "Hang Cool Teddy Bear" followed with another studio album a year later "Hell in a Handbasket" (Biography Meat Loaf, 2016). There are other great hits that Meat Loaf did? "Bat Out of Hell" featured platinum hits like the song from the same name, "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" and "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad". The Bat Out of Hell album was released in 1977 (RollingStone, 2012). Meat Loaf also released other big names like "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through", "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)", "Not a Dry Eye in the House" and "I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)". Meat Loaf does alot of Rock, Rock Opera and Heavy Metal for his music. A couple of his talents like his voice and guitar give him a powerful …show more content…
(White, 2017) His influences helped him shape his operatic rock sound. Here's where it all began in the year 1970. He started in a muscial called "HAIR". It was perfomring at the Aquarius Theatre. "His run with the production eventually led him to Broadway and earned the young performer some important name recognition". (Biography Meat Loaf, 2016) During his part, he worked along with the Detroit cast at the Vest-pocket Theatre right back where he was born in 1970. Meat loaf joined the cast member, Shawn "Stoney" Murfey, Rick Bozzo and bassist Gordy Garris. The Detroit production of Hair was nearing the end of production and Motown/Rare Earth Records quickly offered Meat Loaf and his friend Stoney a one album deal which included the single "What You See is What You Get". Following the release of the album, Meat Loaf was offered the role for "The Rocky Horror Show". (Bozzo) Meat Loaf went to New York to appear in the off-Broadway gospel musical Rainbow in New York in 1973, and then successfully auditioned for "More Than You Deserve", written by Jim Steinman (Bozzo). Meat Loaf was very different then other
The rock and roll album I selected is license to Ill by the Beastie Boys. The album first released in November 15, 1986. The Beastie Boys are an American hip-hop group, which formed in 1981 in New York. The Beastie Boys group consisted of three members for most of their career, Mike D, MCA, and Ad-Rock. The group first began doing hardcore punk, and later transitioned into a rock/ hip-hop style in 1984. (Erlewine) License to Ill released only two years after the group left their punk image for Hip-Hop. Def jams were the record company that first released the album in 1986. License to Ill runs forty-four minutes and thirty-three seconds in length, with thirteen tracks.
The Rock album I have chosen is “Dookie” by Green Day. This album was released in February 1st, 1994 by Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California or Reprise Records in New York. Green Day's band members include Billie Joe Armstrong (Guitar and Vocalist), Tre Cool (Drums), Mike Dirnt (Bass), Jason White (Guitar), and Al Sobrante (Drums.) The main composers of this album was the band Green Day, Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt as the main composers. The engineers were Neill King and Casey McCrankin. The producer was Rob Cavallo. This album is 39 minutes and 40 seconds long and has 15 songs. The songs are as follows: “Burnout,” “Having A Blast,” “Chump,” “Longview,” “Welcome To Paradise,” “Pulling Teeth,” “Basket Case,” “She,” “Sassafras Roots,” “When I Come Around,” “Coming Clean,” Emenius Sleepus,” “In The End,” “F.O.D,” and finally “All By Myself.” The song “All By Myself is a 'secret' song that was added at the every end, only if you heard the whole album, past the silence. The album has sold about 15 to 20 million of sales to date. This is the album that allowed Green Day to gain super star fame.
On November 7th, 1943, Joni Mitchell was born as Roberta Joan Anderson in Fort Macleod, Canada. Her family eventually moved to North Battleford and then Saskatoon; both of which are cities in the Saskatchewan providence of Canada. She considers Saskatoon, Canada to be her hometown. At the young age of nine years old, Mitchell contracted polio, but she managed to recover and regain her ability to walk after a stay in the hospital. Joni Mitchell’s interest in folk music began in her adolescent years. She was self-taught on how to play the ukulele and ultimately, the guitar. Mitchell started performing at parties and among the folk songs sang were some original ones she wrote herself. Thus, Joni Mitchell’s songwriter and singer career began. She, however, was more interested in pursuing art at the time.
September 16, 1968, a famous songwriter, actor, and singer was born in New York City (Biography.com). This famous person is one known around the world, whether you know him from his ex-wife Jennifer Lopez or listened to his music. This person is the infamous Puerto Rican Marco Antonio Muñiz, otherwise known as Marc Anthony. Although not born in Puerto Rico, Marc Anthony’s music influences many people around the world including South America and the United States.
The Life of Billy Joel Billy Joel was born on May 9, 1949 in Bronx, New York. He moved at the age of four to a small town on Long Island. This is where at the ripe age of four he discovered the art of music. Originally a classical music fan, Billy Joel honed his skills with classical piano training. This undoubtedly has had a major influence on his life and certainly his music.
In addition to the 23 albums (counting soundtracks and separate US and UK releases) released during the band's life (1960-1970) there have been more than 150 compilations, recorded interviews and videos issued. Hundreds of books have been written about their personal lives, their music, and their influence on pop culture and rock
During the course of his career, Cocker was a part of several bands: The Cavaliers, Vance Arnold and the Avengers, the Grease Band, and Mad Dogs and Englishmen. During his time with the Cavaliers he was a drummer, and his Vance Arnold stage name was a “combination of Vince Everett, Elvis Presley’s character in Jailhouse Rock (which Cocker misheard as Vance); and country singer Eddy Arnold” (Bean 16). During his United states tour, Cocker and the Grease Band were booked for Woodstock Festival in New York in 1969. His rendition of Beatles’ song, “With a Little Help from My Friends, helped propel Cocker to fame and popularity. The popularity in his cover of the song has not waned over time, in fact in 2010, a Youtube search for “Joe cocker’s ‘A Little Help From My Friends’ show[ed] up with 3,229,953 views” and his cover can be seen in a documentary made about Woodstock (Valkanova, 11). Joe Cocker’s rendition of the song impressed even the Beatles themselves, which lead to Cocker obtaining their permission for him to cover two more of their songs on his subsequent album, Joe Cocker!. His debut album is named “With a Little Help from My Friends” and the title track is a cover of the Beatles Song. His version eventually became the theme song to 80’s and 90’s television series, The Wonder
Soul Sacrifice by Santana is composed with a piano, organ, hand percussion, guitar, saxophones, and a drum kit. This song is in the key of Am but in the middle of the song it changes to Dm. The chords use in this song are Am, C, and Dm. In our performance we used the A blues scale to improvise each of our solos. This is a very complex song because it uses a multitude of riffs, hand percussion and mallet solos, and the Latin ...
Birth of the Cool, the eleven track Capitol record, released in 1957, was actually recorded earlier in 1949 and 1950. As one of the most influential jazz albums of all time, its title depicts the genesis of cool jazz. In the evolution of jazz this post bebop style of the late 1940s through the 1950s was a departure from the emphasis in bebop on virtuoso players in fast tempos with focus on melodies and syncopated rhythms. Cool jazz aimed to be a more subdued, smooth and subtle form of jazz music with a lighter tone, slower tempos and controlled ensemble playing. Cool jazz re-popularized jazz back into the mainstream American music scene.
In 1998, Big Pun’s debut album got released, entitled “Capital Punishment”, and was an accomplishment by the rapper, as it reached platinum certification, bagging 5th place on the Billboards top 200 chart. This increased his net worth by a huge margin. Later, Pun joined the Terror Squad and in 1999 released their only album , entitled “The Album”, but it went flop.
They were two talented men, though genres were different, and they represented the music industry of the age, through them, music was changed forever.
The bad has an obscure early history. Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were childhood friends in 1951 at Dartford Maypole County Primary School. Jagger said, “I distinctly remember this conversation I had with Keith. We lived in the same block and I asked Keith what he wanted to do when he grew up. He said he wanted to be like Roy Rogers and play guitar. I wasn’t particularly impressed with the Roy Rogers bit, but the part about the guitar did interest me.” (Schlesinger, 15-16) The two boys were separated in the mid fifties because their families moved. However, Jagger and Richards were reunited in 1960 on a train in October. They shared a passion for R&B. Keith Richards said, “We started talking about Berry and people like that. I only had a few records at the time, but Mick had a fantastic collection, so we decided to get together and listen to them.” (Hayward, 10)
Stephen Sondheim - Biography Stephen Sondheim was born on 22 March 1930, the son of a wealthy New York dress manufacturer. But, when his parents divorced, his mother moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and young Stephen found himself in the right place at the right time. A neighbor of his mother's, Oscar Hammerstein II, was working on a new musical called Oklahoma! and it didn't take long for the adolescent boy to realise that he, too, was intrigued by musical theatre. Although he subsequently studied composition with Milton Babbitt, he chose to apply what he learned all-or-nothing about Broadway's commercial hothouse.
At ten years old, Sondheim moved to Pennsylvania and became neighbors with the famous musical theatre composer, Oscar Hammerstein II. The families became great friends, and Sondheim became Hammerstein’s personal assistant, enabling him to learn great musical techniques from a professional composer. As a 15-year-old Stephen Sondheim composed his first musical, and he put the show on at his high
It’s not like he isn’t an attractive guy. He has shoulder-length brown hair, dark brown eyes and a smile that was incomparable. His guitar playing skills and singing ability would make a girl go through the roof. And for one special girl, they do.