9/19/2013

A History Of Rock And Roll: Learning About The Beatles

By Jason Larrsohn


If you are interested in learning about music, it is likely that you are interested in learning about rock and roll. Indeed, the bands who played rock and roll are instrumental in laying the foundation for the future of music.

One of the most influential, talented, important bands of rock and roll is Led Zeppelin. Here is a little information about how the band came to be.

The band started their first tour in the UK in October of 1968, as the New Yardbirds. The played their first show officially named as Led Zeppelin on October 25th of 1968.

Their tour manager was named Richard Cole, and he organized their first North American tour shortly thereafter near the end of 1968. Richard would have a profound impact on the band as he would continue to be their tour manager for many years to come.

The Early Years

As a tour manager, Richard become a part of the framework of the everyday tour life of the band. Their first album, which was self-titled, was released in the United States in January of 1969, and peaked at number 10 on the Billboard chart.

John Lennon was tragically assassinated on December 8, 1980; he was only 40 years old.

Led Zeppelin is a band that exemplifies which it means to be a band that is dedicated to making music. Within the first year of them being a band, they released a second album titled Led Zeppelin II, and also completed a total of four tours in the United States and the UK.

This must've taken an incredible amount of mental and emotional stamina. Going on tour for that long can really be taxing on an individual, and especially a band.

Led Zeppelin is known for their blues rock musical style, which really came out on their second album. Many count Led Zeppelin has really making a name for the genre of heavy metal in general.

Albums as a Whole

Led Zeppelin liked people to listen to their albums from start to finish, and saw them as things that couldn't be divided up into singles. But the culture of the time wanted to divide up the albums because singles made for more easy listening.

But The Beatles went out to almost create their own genres that many bands and artists try to emulate in modern times. The Beatles were most famous for their pop ballads and their psychedelic rock songs.

Instead they encouraged people to come see them perform at their live shows. Overall, Led Zeppelin wanted to be loved and appreciated for their music and not any other reason.

They wanted people to see their craft and how hard they had worked to create what they had created. Led Zeppelin's songs are on Youtube, so you have to use a youtube converted if you want to get their songs off youtube and onto your computer.

A youtube converter is very easy to use; all you have to do is enter in the link of the video you want to convert, and it will convert it for you into an mp3 file.




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