1977: End of Rock and Roll?

"1977, No Elvis, Beatles, or Rolling Stone."
---Joe Strummer

In 1977, many of the most prominent rock stars either died or retired. Punk had replaced rock and roll in popularity. Was 1977 the end of rock and roll?

"This is the end."
---Jim Morrison

 

actually 1973 was maybe 1974 . i could safely say 1972 was the last year of grand rock and Big Albums full of real hit songs. by 1973 only a few southern bands were making anything good . by 1977 mostly hair bands were left .

 

dude, punk is rock... i think it was just a metamorphasis

 

well punk is "rock", but not "rock 'n' roll". look in wikipedia, "rock" and "rock 'n' roll" have separate posts.

 

1973 saw the release of "Dark Side of the Moon", "Houses of the Holy", "Piano Man", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", "Desperado", "Space Oddity" and "The Joker", just to name a few. Aerosmith made their debut. 1974 saw Eric Clapton make a comeback, Bad Company made its debut, the Eagles, Elton John, Wings and the 'Stones were still making decent records. You can't really argue that these weren't decent years. True, with disco showing up on the scene late in '74, rock 'n' roll started to lose its edge, but not before then.

 

By 1975 it was all over . only a few hair bands keept rock alive with only Van Halen trying to bring back hard rock in 1978 or 79.

 

1975 we had AC/DC and Queen...two of the best rock bands out there!

 

*sigh*

Come on people, stop living in the past.
Rock 'n' Roll is not dead. There is more than Elvis and the Beatles.

 

Queen WAS A big arena glam rock band "you can say hair band" but they were good . But they were not Led Zep either.

 

Is dead .

 

and Next too die is Rap "hopefully soon".....maybe ill be dead by then ...who cares!

 

Yes, that whole rap and hiphop shit may die a very quick and painful dead for all I care.

 

Right now the only band that is perpetuating classic rock is U2.

 

Rock and Roll can never die.

 

Led Zeppelin is no Queen. See it works both ways...Besides Mercury was a way better vocalist than Plant IMO...Mays still is a very good guitarist. But what is Plant and Page doing???

 

I feel a slow uprising in rock and roll these days. People are dissmissing a lot of the other music and listening to more classic rock stuff. I have a prediction that it will move back to good ol' rock and roll soon enough, like a circle of music, it will probably die again like it did before, but also maybe come back again with a little bit something new if there are ever any new innovations (Can't think of much else they can majorly innovate unless it's like a new instrument or something hehe).

Plus if a genre of music was ever popular, then it's never completely dead because there will always be people listening to it. Also if you look at countries other then the U.S., their current "popular" music is very different then ours.

 

rock never died, are you kidding me?? what about all those hair bands in the 80s?? and grunge rock in the 90s?? and now you have the killers, the strokes, and the white stripes, to name a few.

 

Half of these bands are still touring anyway - the one's that still can.My mate went to see Jethro Tull two weeks ago,Planty's always comin out with new stuff.The Who are on tour as I write this,Alice Coopers had a show in the UK where he gets kids of about 12 or 13 to form a band and do a gig within 2 weeks,the list goes on.But more importantly my brother tells me that my niece has just started listening to alot of old stuff led zep etc through to the likes of Metallica and the contemporary stuff to (which I'm a bit behind on other than tenacious d and the like) and thats not his influence - thats from school - and she goes to school in a very rural quiet country village.

As for me...well... I'm still crawling over valleys of endless seas

 

Rock and Roll will never die. As long as there is people who listen to it, we'll sing HEY HEY MAMA SAY THE YOU MOVE GONNA MAKE YOU SWEAT GONNA MAKE YOU GROOVE!!!

 

i don't care what kind of music it is, as long as it's not commercialized bullshit music. if it has emotion and/or creativeness, then that's all i care about. it can be blues, folk, rock, whatever. and slowly the good music is coming back. some bands that i listen to from the 90s to the current era are:

red hot chili peppers
jack johnson
ryan adams
guster
black crowes
silvertide
john mayer (listen to his "TRY" album, this guy is the real deal)
adrian legg

and i'm sure there's others

there's plenty of good music out there these days, you just have to look in the right places