A history of Disney movies and classic rock references to Disney movies and characters plus various classic rock connections.
Category: Influences of Classic Rock
Poets of Classic Rock
There are many classic rockers who are also published poets. Here's a list of some rock stars you may not know also wrote poetry.
50 Years Since the Moon Landing: Classic Rock and Space Part 1 🚀✨
The Diversity of Classic Rock celebrates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with a list of songs about space by bands like The Beatles, David Bowie, Elton John, Frank Sinatra, and more!
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Review: Remastered: Devil at the Crossroads
Angie Moon reviews the new Netflix music documentary Remastered: Devil at the Crossroads about influential blues musician Robert Johnson.
Country Music of the 60s and 70s Part 2
Here's part two of our series on Country rock and musicians who inspired it like Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Roy Orbison, Willie Nelson, and more.
Country Music of the 60s and 70s: Part 1
Country music influenced rock and roll and a lot of rock musicians like country music. These genres have a lot more in common than one would think. To pay tribute to country music and its influence on rock and roll …
Classic Rock and Oldies songs as heard in memes
Memes have revived many songs from the past. In this post, we look at the histories of these songs of the past popularised by memes.
Despacito: Topping the charts everywhere, but is it really that impressive?
I’ve been busy working on other writing projects and my thesis, so I am a bit late to the party, but this song is still played widely on the radio. It’s still #1 in America. I heard it on the …
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Indian Influences in Classic Rock
Note from the author: I wanted to write this post for a while now. The sitar is my favourite instrument. It added something cool to the table, paving the way for other world music genres to influence classic rock. I …
Where did the 50s go?
It's hard to find music from the 50s on the radio. Why is that? Is it an under appreciated decade? What's so great about it? Angie Moon explores this topic.
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