alice cooper

Vincent Damon Furnier aka Alice cooper was one of the craziest rock and roll artists ever! He first started rocking when he was in  high school when he formed a band, the band was called the Earwigs and they later changed the name to the spiders.  Alice cooper first success was in 1971 when him and his band signed with the Warner bros. After him and his  band signed with them they had some  great songs like: such a killer, schools out, billion dollar baby and muscle of love.  A few years pasted by and Alice cooper split up with his band and went solo in 1974.  Then he had some more  success being solo when he released his  solo album welcome to my nightmare and this other album Alice cooper goes to hell. But after that really nothing came of him he hit a low and started doing drugs like a lot of great musical artists did. That happened he got help and became a born again Christan. Then he tried writing music and singing again but it never was like it was then he was younger. But   one album get him back again to his own rock and roll self with the popular album trash. in then  2004 he launched as radio program called nights with Alice cooper and that is still on today. It is a big success, but that wast his biggest accomplishment. Hiss biggest one was when him and his band he split up from got inducted into the fall of fame in 2011.

bruce springsteen

Bruce Springsteen is one of the best classic rock musicians of his time! Bruce first  got  in to rock and roll when  he saw Elvis Presley play  on the Ed Sullivan show. After Bruce  saw him play he fell in love with rock and roll and asked his mom  for his 16^th birthday for a guitar and that is what he got! Since he got his guitar when he was 16^th he hasn’t stopped playing it since then. But then he turned 18  he was drafted in the military  and was sent to Vietnam. Before though he went he failed his   exam by the military because they said he was to crazy and that  that he had a concussion. After that he was free from going into the military service so he moved to the New Jersey shore and just played  music with different groups of music. In new  jersey  Bruce  got the nickname the boss. After playing on the shore of jersey for a few  years  he got discovered by Columbia records and signed with them. Then Bruce released  his one album in 1972 after it got released a lot  of people compared  him to bob Dylan because he had the same poetic style that bob did. But his first album wasn’t very good at all! But that all changed in 1975 when he let out his best album in his whole career Born To Run  it shot up fast to 200 on the billboard  and that was his start to his great fame. Some songs on the that album were: Thunder  road, night, born to run, meeting across the river and she’s the one. After  that he had great success but the greatest  thing that happened in his musical career is when he was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame in 1999.

little Richard

Little Richard one of the greatest rock stars and basically one of the starter of rock and roll! Little Richard had a very hard life when he was a child; he was kicked out when he was 13 years old. He was kicked out because his dad was very hard on him because he showed signs of homosexually and his father was having none of that. Richard when he was a boy   he when to church a lot with his uncle and his grandparents and he learned how to play the piano. His first musical success   is when in 1951 little Richard preformed and got picked up with a record contract with RCA. Another famous time in little Richard’s career   was when in 1955 his song Tutti-Frutti,” and this song shot up to number 17 on the music billboard. Some of little Richards songs are send me some loving, all around the world, jenny jenny, and ooh my soul.  After all of his success and in his later years he quit rock and roll and started working in the church as the ministry. When he was in the church he helped out with everything he could but he never got away from music. He starts recording gospel songs and he made a regional album in 1959. I would have so his biggest accomplishment  was in 1986 little Richard was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame.  That little Richard was not his real name, his name is Richard Wayne Penniman. That little Richard would probably be put up with great ones in rock and roll history with the Beatles  pink Floyd, led zeppelin ,Neil young and Queen. Little Richard will never be forget in  rock and roll because of all this great accomplishments he did in his life.

Elvis Presley

 The king of rock and roll aka Elvis Presley is one of the best rockers of his time. Even though he lived to 42 he still was one of the greatest rockers. He started at a very young age loving music; he got his first guitar when he was only 10 years old! His first musical success was when he was in high school when he won his talent show in at Humes High School in Memphis. In 1954 Elvis Presley   recorded his first single that’s all right. Even though Elvis was a great singer he only got half famous for that the other half of his fame from his dance moves and good looks. He danced by provocative gyrating hips and that made the ladies go crazy for him! In 1955 Elvis Presley made it big when he got his song “Heartbreak Hotel” number one on the charts of the music billboard chart. After he made in big with his songs and provocative songs moves he was all over everything! He was on the radio all the time, also on the TV and on the silver screen. Elvis Presley started in his first film in 1965 and the movie was Love Me tender and it was a huge hit at the box office. After that though he was drafted and had to go to the military  for a year and a half in Germany. After coming back from the military Elvis didn’t miss a beat with his song writing. His first song he wrote when he got was  blue Hawaii and many more songs after that but I would have to say that Elvis Presley best song ever song hound dog. But all great musical artists hit a low  in his career and died at the young age of 42 because  his prescription drug problem that no one helped him with. Imagine  if Elvis would have lived a full life how many more great sounds he would have written and how many more people he would have touched with his music and his provocative dancing.

bob dylan

I would have to say Robert Allen Zimmerman aka bob Dylan  is one  of the greatest folk  rock singer in his time and in history of rock and roll. He first started his music career when he was in college, he started preforming country and folk songs when he was there at local café . That he is also where he changed his name to bob Dylan. He changed his name to bob Dylan   because of  the late Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. In grade school bob  was influenced  to be an musical artists  by Elvis Presley jerry lee Lewis and little Richard.  Dylan career really started in 1961  after he performed and  got a rave from the new York times.  After that he got picked up by Columbia Records and he signed with them. Some of bob Dylan’s  famous songs are blowing in the wind, babe, let me follow you down, every grain of sand, I’m alright ma and his best song even I would say is knocking on heaven’s door.  Bob Dylan just had an amazing rock and roll career in all and  this was showed in 1988 when he was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame. Bob Dylan was known for a lot of things like being a poet , a folk rock singer and a lot more thing . But in my eyes he is a rock and roll legend  and always will be no matter what.