The Beatles Influence On Rock And Roll

The Beatles are famous English born rock band from 1960-1970 members include: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Pete Best, and Stuart Sutcliffe. John Lennon forming the band, first called the Quarrymen in 1950, then in 1959 changed to Johnny and Moondogs when George Harrison joined. Then in 1960 moving to Hamburg, Germany billing themselves as the Silver Beatles. Then returning to Liverpool with new drummer, Ringo Starr billed themselves as the name we know then as today; The Beatles. This British band changed rock and roll from the blues to a more louder and electronic sound. Therefore, The Beetles are important figure in world history because they have changed the perception of rock and roll forever.

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Country Blues was people living in the countryside enjoy this. Ragtime was a popular African American music while Anglo- American folk often featuring fiddles and Banjos; folk had a great influence on all forms of music past and present. In the 1920’s Black church music, Jazz, Boogie Woogie, and Jug Bands were popular during this time. Religion in the early 1920’s really influenced the people and how music was made. Black church music was the African Americans took church singing known as “spirituals” became world renowned especially taken up by artist Paul Robeson. Jazz a recognizable style, jazz grew out of the professional urban blues and into the dance rhythms of Ragtime; with artist like King Oliver and Louis Armstrong. The Boogie Woogie was a strong, rhythmic piano developed from a combination of Ragtime, Urban Blues, and Jazz played by Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis. Jug Bands is a kind of simplified jazz on cheap instruments. In the 1940’s there was music such as West Coast Blues, Bluegrass, and Chicago & Detroit. West Coast Blues was created by an artist named T. Bone Walker; where he began recording in California using an electric guitar rather than an acoustic guitar. He used

Rock started in the mid 1950’s. Rock & Roll is essentially hybrid in origin, which includes elements of several black and white American music styles: black guitar-accompanied blues; black rhythm and blues, noted for saxophone solos; black and white gospel music ; white country and western music ; and the songs of white popular crooners and harmony groups. In 1954–55, rock music was initially referred to as "rock 'n ' roll." After 1964 it was simply called "rock music"rock music was no longer just for dancing. Elvis Presley and groups like Motown and The Beatles really influenced Rock & Roll. Elvis Presley was initially acclaimed for their energy and appealing individual personalities rather than for any innovations in their music. Other bands such as the Rolling Stones whose music derived from the black blues tradition. These British bands instigated a return to the blues orientation of rock 'n ' roll, albeit in ever louder and more electric reincarnations. The Beatles with these louder eclectic sounds really changed how we see Rock & Roll