Rock - Culture and entertainment. Rock (music), the super-genre of styles of popular music evolved from rock and roll Rock and roll, a genre of popular music, most prominent in 1950s and '60s, from which all rock music evolved Rocks (album), an album by Aerosmith Mega Man (character), the main character of a video game before his transformation into "Mega Man". To Rock someone, a slang term to describe having sex with someone Rock (manga), a dark young boy who is ...

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Definition and meaning of rock:

rock - a naturally occurring aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids. Rocks are classified by mineral and chemical composition; the texture of the constituent particles; and also by the processes that formed them. Rocks are thus separated into igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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Main article: Alternative music British rock - Twee pop. Main article: Twee pop British rock - Space rock. Main article: Space rock British rock - Shoegazing. Main article: Shoegazing British rock - Dream pop. Main article: Dream pop British rock - Gothic roc ...

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British rock was born out of the influence of rock and roll and rhythm and blues from the United States, but added a new drive and urgency, exporting the music back and widening the audience for black R & B in the U.S. as well as spreading the gospel world wide. Much of what has made rock music unique, in its ability to unite audiences and adapt new influences, came from British bands in the late ...

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Christian rock is a form of rock music played by bands where the musicians are openly Christian. The extent that their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between bands. In the 1970s, Larry Norman was a popular Christian rock musician who challenged a view held by some conservative Christians (predominantly fundamentalists) that rock music was anti-Christian. One of his songs, "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?", summarized his attitude and his quest to pioneer Christian rock music. Such attitudes toward n ...

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Several towns in the United States are named "Castle Rock": Castle Rock, Colorado Castle Rock, Washington Castle Rock, Wisconsin Castle Rock Township, Minnesota There is also Castle Rock, Maine, a fictional town used by Stephen King as the setting for a number of his works. Castle Rock - Mountains. Castle Rock is also the name of several mountains and rock outcroppings: Castle Rock State Park, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, used by res ...

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Country rock is a musical genre formed from the fusion of rock and roll with country music. While such cross-pollination has occurred throughout the history of both genres, the term is usually used to refer to the wave of groups of the late 1960s and early 1970s who began to record country flavored records, including Neil Young, The Byrds, Gram Parsons and Bob Dylan with The Band. The term is also used for those who came after them, such as Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Eagles, and the many bands they in ...

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A Mexican agate, showing only a single eye, has received the name of cyclops. Included matter of a green colour, like fragments of "green earth," embedded in the chalcedony and disposed in filaments and other forms suggestive of vegetable growth, gives rise to moss agate. Cyclops rock - Reference. THE NOMENCLATURE OF SILICA by GILBERT HART, American Mineralogist, Volume 12, pages 383-395, 1927 ...

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The terms alternative rock and alternative music[1] were coined in the early 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired music genres which didn't fit into the mainstream genres of the time. At times it was used as catch-all phrase for rock music from underground artists in the 1980s and rock music in general in the 1990s and 2000s. More specifically, it is made up mostly of genres that appeared in the 1980s and became popular or well known by t ...

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"Cherub Rock" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins (at the time known as simply Smashing Pumpkins). It was the first single from their second album, Siamese Dream, and was written by Billy Corgan. The song remains a fan favorite, and was a moderate success for the band, being performed on Saturday Night Live and making it to the Triple J Hottest 100. In October 2005, the Fox Broadcasting Company used "Cherub Rock" to advertise their Major League Baseball postseason coverage. Also for some time, professional wrestler ...

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Chris Rock (born February 7, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian and actor born in Andrews, South Carolina. He grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Stuyvesant High School where he was president of the chess club and Black Students League. He was a cast member of the popular sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1990–1993. His tenure on the show gave Rock national exposure, but problems with drugs led him to rarely being used on the show save for his reaccuring "Nat X" character. R ...

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Wagnerian rock is a musical genre that was created by Jim Steinman due to his love for the music of Richard Wagner and Phil Spector. The genre is a merger (almost a musical hybrid) of twentieth century Rock & Roll and nineteenth century Opera reminiscent that of Wagner's and Spector's, and not to say the least, with a major distinctive touch of Steinman's own musical skills. The genre can be argued to be a subform of Rock opera. See also. anthem rock Holly Sherwood Fire I ...

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Coke la Rock ,an American old school rapper, was the first MC/rapper in hip-hop. He got his start as the MC for DJ Kool Herc, a Jamaican immigrant. Herc, widely regarded as the inventor of hip hop, brought with him from Jamaica elements of early dub music, among them toasting, or swift, rhythmic speech over a regular beat. Coke La Rock (and fellow MC Clark Kent) began doing the same sort of swift, rhythmic speech over the funk, disco and soul tracks that Herc (a DJ) played. By the mid-1970s, La Rock had become known as one of the most

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Arrow Rock Festival is a rockfestival that takes place on a yearly basis in Lichtenvoorde, the Netherlands. This festival presents mostly classic rock bands. Arrow Rock Festival - 2003. On June 27, 2003 was the first edition of the Arrow Rock Festival. The line-up was: Deep Purple Lynyrd Skynyrd Status Quo Uriah Heep L.A. Doors Wishbone Ash Manfred Mann's Earth Band Budgie Y&T Thin Lizzy. Including:

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Main article: Punk rock Punk rock started off as a reaction to the lush, producer-driven sounds of disco, and against the commercialism of most progressive rock. Early punk borrowed heavily from the garage band ethic: played by bands for which expert musicianship was not a requirement, punk was stripped-down, three-chord music that could be played easily and often bore a close resemblance to the American "punk rock" from the late 60's on the "Nuggets" collection issued in 1972 on Electra featuring artists like The Electric Prun ...

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British rock, British rock - 1950s birth of British rock, British rock - 1960s rockers and rock groups, British rock - The British Invasion 1964–1969, British rock - Blues-rock, British rock - Psychedelic rock, British rock - Progressive rock, British rock - Heavy metal, British rock - Folk-rock, British rock - Glam rock, British rock - Punk rock, British rock - Alternative rock, British rock - Twee pop, British rock - Space rock, British rock - Shoegazing, British rock - Dream pop, British rock - Gothic rock, British rock - Modern music, British rock - Britpop

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The first edition of the festival was held in 1985, with Queen as a headliner. About 1.4 million people attended the 10 day long festival. The full list of acts from Rock in Rio: AC/DC Al Jarreau George Benson Iron Maiden James Taylor Nina Hagen Ozzy Osbourne Queen The B-52's Go Go's Scorpions Whitesnake Yes Rod Stewart Alceu Valença Barão Vermelho Blitz Elba ...

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In the United Kingdom the Trad jazz movement brought visiting blues music artists and Lonnie Donegan's 1955 hit "Rock Island Line" began Skiffle music groups throughout the country, including John Lennon's "The Quarry Men" formed in March 1957 as a precursor to The Beatles. Britain was quick to become a new centre of rock and roll, without the color barriers which kept "race records" or Rhythm and Blues separate in the U.S.. Cliff Richard had the first British rock 'n' roll hit with "Move It", beg ...

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Rock music, Rock music - Origins, Rock music - Rock 'n' Roll diversifies, Rock music - Surf music, Rock music - Australia, Rock music - British rock, Rock music - British invasion, Rock music - 1960s garage rock, Rock music - Development of a counterculture 1963-1974, Rock music - Bob Dylan and folk-rock, Rock music - Psychedelic rock, Rock music - Progressive rock, Rock music - German prog, Rock music - Italian prog, Rock music - Birth of heavy metal, Rock music - Corporate movements out of the counterculture the 1970s, Rock music - Arena rock, Rock music - Soft rock/Pop, Rock music - Classic rock emerging, Rock music - Rock crosses the border, Rock music - Disco punk and New Wave 1973-1981, Rock music - Disco, Rock music - Punk Rock, Rock music - New Wave, Rock music - Rock diversifies in the 1980s, Rock music - Hard rock and hair metal, Rock music - Birth of Chinese rock, Rock music - Alternative music and the indie movement, Rock music - Grunge and the anti-corporate rock movement, Rock music - Britpop, Rock music - Indie rock, Rock music - Alternative Rock and current trends 1995-present, Rock music - Social impacts, Rock music - 127 Underground Rock, Rock music - Trivia

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In the United Kingdom the Trad jazz movement brought visiting blues music artists and Lonnie Donegan's 1955 hit "Rock Island Line" began Skiffle music groups throughout the country, including John Lennon's "The Quarry Men" formed in March 1957 as a precursor to The Beatles. Britain was quick to become a new centre of rock and roll, without the color barriers which kept "race records" or Rhythm and Blues separate in the U.S.. Cliff Richard had the first British rock 'n' roll hit with "Move It", beginning the different sound of British rock.See also:

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The earliest and most lofty of the Cashel edifices is the round tower, a very perfectly preserved 28 metre (90 feet) high example, which dates from c.1100. The Chapel of King Cormac, Cormac's Chapel, consecrated in 1134, is the most important building from the point of view of the modern visitor. Begun in 1127, it is a very sophisticated structure, unlike most Irish Romanesque churches which are simple in plan with isolated decorated features. The Abbot of Regensburg sent two of his carpenters to help in the work and the twin towers o ...

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Some critics of Christian rock complain that Christian music trends are derivative of rock music and pop music in that they copy these styles and trends without creating original sounds of their own. The stereotype is of some sort of derivative, sanitized-for-your-protection version of whatever is popular on the radio, the musical equivalent of low-fat cheese[1]. Others respond that all music is in some way derived from previous works. For inst ...

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