Danny Mangu
Professor Raymond Aston
History of Rock & Roll
7 December 2017
God Bless The Sabbath The Prince of Darkness, John Michael Osbourne, otherwise known as his stage name Ozzy Osbourne, was born in Birmingham, England in 1948. He would force himself to overcome many hardships he has experienced from his troubled youth. He dropped out of school to become a working man, even engaging in criminal acts such as theft, which ultimately caught up to him, having to spend about six weeks in prison. He fell in Love with the first hit Single “She Loves You” written by The Beatles, when he was just fourteen years old. He became a great fan of The Beatles, even dedicating their music as the ultimate straw that led him to pursue Rock & Roll. Ozzy
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He though Tony was incredible, thus inspiring Bill to really take music seriously. Bill Ward elaborates on his early years in an interview with “All About Jazz” writer Jack Gold, where he shares an in depth talk about his career, playing the drums, and his inspiration with jazz music. “Childhood, all me influences were, say, between the time that I can remember, which would have been about three years old to the time that I was about five or six years old, all the music that I have ever heard was jazz and it was American Jazz, and it was big band Jazz, to be more defined. Because of the time, it being in the fifties when I first heard Presley, of course I was just totally gone at that point. I was just absolutely trapped or gathered up, if you like, by rock and roll. But before that, what I consider to be traditional rock and roll would have been the Ink Spots and The Platters” (Gold). He was found guilty by his parents because of the constant tapping and drumming he would make on the furniture in his house. Guilty of revealing his talent, thus leading him to pursue his love for music. “They said that I had Saint Vitus's Dance, and Saint Vitus's Dance is a common term in the midlands for somebody who can't sit still. I couldn't stop tapping all the time, you know. I just was attracted to just wanting to make noise on different things” (Gold). Bill Ward would go on to be one of the most exceptional drum players the world has ever seen, and his solo in “War Pigs” is just absolutely untouchable. He truly was the back bone of Black Sabbath, bringing in grit and personality, which left the Rock & Roll audience speechless in
At a time Black Sabbath did not have a manager. Since they did not have a manager they had to know some ideas to do,and where they were going on tour. Their record dealer did not care about Black Sabbath any more because their records was not getting sold(Aberback,2011). They were not making that much music because they needed music equipment to record the music. Tragics are the worst thing that can happen to the band, but some struggles can also ruin
Kurt was an extremely happy child. He would wake up everyday so happy. He was
Steve Miller was born October 5, 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Steve’s family was very involved with music. His mother was a jazz-influenced singer, and his father was a pathologist that very interested in the world of music. Dr. Miller was friends with many musicians which greatly aided in young Steve’s development in music. One of his father’s friends included Les Paul, who showed Steve some chords on a guitar at the age of five. Les Paul proved to be a very valuable mentor to Steve, and he became a good friend of the family. When Steve was seven his family moved to Dallas, where he was exposed to a different type of artists that usually did not visit Milwaukee. His father took him to see greats such as Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, and Carl Perkins. Steve was particularly drawn to T-Bone Walker, the father of Texas-style electric blues. This proved to be very influential in Steve’s life, and it is evident by the blues-sound that he exhibited in his guitar playing.
Many people in show business are viewed as role models in our society. Many of these people are just regular men and women that are placed high on a pedestal simply because they can sing or act, hence, becoming all the more famous. Although he was famous and popular in the entertainment world for almost four decades, Frank Sinatra was a singer and actor that had a side to him that not everyone knew. He hid behind the facade of an entirely happy, successful performer, when, in reality, he had many problems that the public was not even aware of. Some of these problems are the same that the average person faces day to day, but many went far deeper than trivial troubles. Some of these specific quandaries had to do with hidden aspects of his personal relationships, hidden connections with criminal elements, and other unknown aspects of his life.
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. Growing up Joel was a big fan of such greats as Ray Charles, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Otis Reading. He was greatly persuaded into a career of music when he saw the Beatles perform on the Ed Sullivan Show. Amusingly Joel's first band was inspired by the uncanny opportunity to meet girls. The band was called The Echoes, but this was not the best of times for Joel because his parents were involved in a messy divorce, which included serious financial shortcomings. Joel even began working professional music gigs at night to help support his mother. Joel's schoolwork suffered a little and he began missing school way too often. He was subsequently not allowed to graduate with his high school class due to the number of absences. After high school Joel immediately joined a very popular band called The Hassels for which he recorded two albums with. Within two years Joel was on to a new band which he named Attila, and featured heavy metal drummer Jon Small who he played with during his time with The Hassels. Despite the previous release of two albums Joel still needed to bring in more money so he worked many music related jobs and gigs. He even wrote a rock and roll criticism piece in a weekly column for a magazine.
In the 1930s, Goodman gradually gained recognition at recording sessions and radio shows in New York City, where he later formed his first band and began performing weekly on NBC’s radio show Let’s Dance (Collier 89). Around this time, Goodman had his first number one hit “Moonglow,” clearly marking his progression as a bandleader (Collier 96). This exposure allowed Goodman to achieve greater national fame that provided the foundation for the beginning of the Swing Era. With a national audience building from his radio performances, Goodman’s upbeat, hot jazz swing style was gaining traction, leading up to a pivotal performance on his band’s tour in Los Angeles that marked the transition to a new era in jazz. At Palomar Ballroom, Goodman and his band performed their new swing music, which combined elements of jazz and popular American dance music (Firestone 204). The gig is generally accepted as the start of the Swing Era, as Goodman’s style of swing music gained overwhelming positive feedback from the audience. Since the performance was broadcasted on national radio, Goodman’s jazz music dominated headlines and catapulted jazz into the forefront of American popular music. As dancers craved the upbeat swing music, bands copied Goodman’s style, which led to the proliferation of swing music and the birth of the Swing Era (“Benny Goodman:
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 has become a sanctuary for Jimi since he grew up not having much.
He may just seem like another rapper to you but if you actually listen to his lyrics you can see he’s not like any rapper out there. His name is Kanye West and he was born in Chicago Illinois. He grew up in the “ghetto” and learned to appreciate life. He didn’t learn to really, truly appreciate life until October of 2002. Driving back to his hotel late one night after a recording session, the new-coming rap/hip-hop artist was involved in a devastating, near fatal car accident. The crash left him with a broken jaw in three places and an appreciation for life. Just weeks after being released from the hospital he recorded his first major hit, “Through the Wire,” with his mouth still wired shut. He records every song like its going to be his last song and that makes every song better than the last. He’s not only a rap artist but also a producer. He has been responsible for being behind songs like Jay-Z’s Izzo, Girls, Girls, Girls, The Takeover, and 03 Bonnie and Clyde.
Gestalt therapy is also similar to the psychoanalytic perspective because they both belief that different defense mechanisms influence a person’s relationship with others. It is also similar with the concept that dreams contain messages about a person’s life. Overall, this therapy wants the client to not look so much into what they “should” do, but to live fully without expectations or past habits being an influence (Daniels, 2005). Gestalt therapy does not explore the idea that a person’s thinking as something that needs to be changed (Brownell, 2010).
Jimi Hendrix once said "When the power of love over comes the love of power, the world will finally find peace". Im here to day to tell you of his journey to try and make that clear to every 1 else. Yes, Jimi did more than just play guitar. This is the love and times of Mr. James Marshall Hendrix.
educational system, which in his words meant “six thousand black guys and him.” In his high
Introduction: Perhaps no one has received this title in history “the king of pop”, now a days many artist’s have arisen and have performed but not as the king of pop known worldwide and in history, has dominated the world of pop as Michael Jackson.
At the beginning of his career the part of the music he cared most about were they lyrics and their meanings. When he first meets Ray Manzarek the sample of poetic lyrics Morrison shows him are what prompts them to start the band in the first place. However, once Morrison gets on stage and adopts his iconic “Lizard King”(a name taken from his own poem “The Celebration of the Lizard King”) persona it is something that he obsesses with constantly. The “Lizard King” was what is generally considered as the quintessential rock star persona: a brooding, soulful musician, a bad boy who defies authority and who constantly surrounds himself with partying, sex, alcohol and drugs. Morrison was consumed with holding up this persona. Throughout the movie he acts out with anti-authoritarian behaviors, such as keeping the lyric “we can’t get much higher” in a live performance of “Light My Fire” on the Ed Sullivan Show despite being told to change it to avoid getting in trouble with the FCC, or by inciting riots at a live show by recounting the story of a police officer not recognizing him backstage and getting aggresive to the point of spraying him in the face with a can of Mace. These sorts of behaviors appealed to the fans of the band who tended to worship him even more intensely after incidents like these, which served to make Morrison obsess more about himself and his public
Michael Jackson is one of my favorite singers. He is very famous, so most of all people in the world know him, at least his name. I began to listen to his songs because I was recommended them by my friend, and I was really attracted by them. I have two reasons why I like him.