70's

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In the 70’s we had a lot of changes in the music context. We can say that the 70’s are remembered by the begining of the Punk movement, the glam rock, the hard rock(some people say it is just a distorcion of the blues and rock) and the disco music, the consolidation of progressive rock and other very important facts.

Dividing it we can explain it better, let’s start with the Punk movement!

PUNK MOVEMENT

In the punk movement we had some great bands like “The Kinks”, “The Clash”, “Sex Pistols” and“Ramones”. The songs are usually with just a few chords(most of them power chords), rebel lyrics and also very short. The members of the band had the custom to wear torn clothes, boots, black leather jackets which was a custom of every member of this movement.

The Ramones in Concert (São Paulo)

GLAM ROCK

Some people might not know the term “glam rock” but they know exactly what it is.

The “glam” comes from glamour. The artists used to mix music and fashion to impress the public. A classic example is David Bowie with his clothes and make up.

Another famous artist associated with the “glam rock” is the singer and pianist Elton John.

HARD ROCK

Is a very famous genre and with a very big list of bands. The main caracteristics are: A heavy guitar with several riffs, complex solos, the formation with a drummer, guitarrist, bassist and singer. Besides the fact that exists a heavy guitar in this genre we can not confuse it with heavy metal because hard rock has several conections with the blues and the swing music.

Of all the bands we can list Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Kiss, Rush, AC/DC, Aerosmith and Van Halen(with the monster skills of the master Eddie Van Halen!!!)

DISCO MUSIC

It started in dance clubs, most of them fo the black, latin or gay community. But in a short time it became so popular in the West of the world. In this genre there are some bands that are very famous and some other bands with just one or two famous singles.

We can list as famous bands: ABBA, Bee Gees, The Jackson 5.

PROGRESSIVE ROCK

This genre became very appreciated because it puts together some popular elements such as a popular song structure and some very refined elements as instruments of the classic music, blues and jazz. Besides the fact the the song structure was popular, between the songs we had some songs with a very complex form and they were all connected. Sometimes it is all so well bonded that we cannot say when a music ends and the other one starts

One band that could do this very well is Pink Floyd. Albuns like “The Dark Side of The Moon” had one single story told in the whole album and it sounds like a 50 minute song.