Hard rock
Hard rock | |
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Stylistic oreegins | Blues rock, garage rock, psychedelic rock, rock an roll an rhythm an blues |
Cultural oreegins | Mid 1960s, Unitit Kinrick an Unitit States |
Teepical instruments | Electric guitar – bass guitar – vocals – drums – sometimes pianos an keybuirds |
Derivative forms | Hivy metal |
Ither topics | |
Back beat – rock opera – rock baund – performers – progressive rock – Hall of Fame – social impact |
Hard rock (or heavy rock) is a loosely defined subgenre o rock muisic which haes its earliest ruits in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock an psychedelic rock. It is typifee'd bi a hivy uise o distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, an aften accompaniet wi pianos an keybuirds.
Hard rock developit intae a major form o popular muisic in the 1970s, wi baunds such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, AC/DC, an Van Halen, an reached a commercial peak in the mid tae late 1980s. The glam metal o baunds like Bon Jovi an Def Leppard an the rawer soonds o Guns N' Roses follaeed up wi great success in the later pairt o that decade, afore losin popularity in the face o grunge. Despite this, mony post-grunge baunds adoptit a hard rock soond an in the 2000s there came a renewed interest in established baunds, attempts at a revival, an new hard rock baunds that emergit frae the garage rock an post-punk revival scenes.
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