Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix is one of the greatest guitar players ever in rock and roll history!  He was born in Seattle Washington on November 27, 1942. Jimi had a very difficult childhood but that didn't stop did from playing music; when Jimi was a teenager he learned how to play the guitar. Jimi was a big fan of the blues music and when he was 14 years old he saw Elvis Presley preform and a year after that Jimi Hendrix got his first electric guitar.  When he got the guitar he joined to bands but those didn’t last too long at all. Jimi didn’t think he needed school so in 1959 he dropped out of school and started working weird jobs but Jimi still tried continuing with his music.  Two years later Jimi went into the army and began a paratrooper and in the army Jimi started a band called the King Casuals.  But a year later Jimi was released from the army because when he was in battle he got injured. After he got of the army Jimi pursued music, he got to play back up for the great artists Little Richard and Sam Cooke. Jimi Hendrix formed a group called jimmy James and the blue flames that he played with them at gigs at the club and in the village. In 1966 Jimi got his big break and met Chas Charles and became his manger and in 1967 Jimi released his first single and it was a great hit in Britain. Some other great songs Jimi wrote were purple haze, voodoo child, burning of the midnight lamp and all along the watchtower. Most of his musical success was his guitar playing still, he was amazing at it. He did things that were never done ever and were not of thought of ever being done with a guitar. That  one of the greatest things that ever happened to think is when he was inducted into the rock and hall of fame in 1992. Even though he was a great rocker he did have a bad side to him and he  died in 1970 because he was doing drugs.

elton john

I would have to say that Reginald Kenneth Dwight aka Elton john is one of the most  interesting rock and roll artists of all time. Elton John  loved music so much, when he was only 4 years old he taught himself to play the piano all my himself!Elton proved he that he was a great musical artist when he was younger when he won a  scholarship to the youth program for the royal academy of music in London. After a few years went by Elton John didn't think he needed school anymore and he wanted to feel his dream of playing music, so he dropped out when he was 17 years old. in the beginning Elton johns career was very slow he first started his career by answering a ad to be a songwriter in 1967. be he got his big break in 1969 when he produced his first album empty sky's. Everything went right from there Elton john really was a huge hit in the 1980's with a lot of memorable songs like Little Jeannie and Empty Garden. His most memorable song was Hey Hey johnny and this song  was for his great friend who died the late and great john Lennon. That a huge thing about Elton John was that he was a homosexual  but that really wasn't a big deal because the man was a musical   artists writing songs like Rocket Man, Bennie and the Jets, Crocodile Rock  and Save rock and roll. Two huge accomplishments in Elton Johns life is winning 10 tony awards and being inducted into the hall of fame of rock and roll in1994. Almost forget one thing in 1998 Elton john was knighted by the queen of England!

The eagles

The eagles are one of the greatest bands on the  1960's and of all time in rock and history! The band the eagles throughout their very successful career  they sold  more then 100 million copies of there albums. One of their  albums  sold 29 million copies in the united states and  it was  the first album ever certified  platinum. The album was called the greatest hits 1971 to 1975. Most of the Eagles success happened in the 1970 to 1976  then it started to slow  down for the eagles and they released their last album in 1979 and it was called In the long run. This album only sold 8 million  copies and in 1980  in was a very dark year because the eagles broke up!  Some of there great songs from the eagles in there so called golden year were take it easy, witchy  woman, one of theses nights and take it to the limit. But i would have to say their greatest song ever was hotel California. About 13 pasted and the eagles still didn't get back together 2 out of the 4 band members tried going solo  but they never made it anywhere with it. All looked lost for the eagles in never seemed like they were ever going to get back together until the great year 1994 when they all got back together  and toured and released there new album hell freezes over and they sold 10 million copies with this album. I would have to say the eagles compare to the greatest rockers of all time because their  music is just so smooth and  just so classic its just awesome. To top it all off they got inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame in 1998. So anyone can think  what they want about the eagles but for sure they are one of the best of all time!

Eric Clapton

 Eric  Clapton is one of the best classic rock artists in this time. When Eric was young  he was really into  rock and roll and that is because in 1958  rock and roll exploded in Britain and For Eric's 13th birthday he wanted a guitar. After he got that guitar his life changed; when he was 16 he when to Kingston college of art. When he was  there the only thing he did was play the blues on the guitar.In 1963 he was in the band  called the yard birds  he had little success  with the band.  But he  being only to years with the band he got fed up with the band  and left! Later that year  Eric Clapton joined The blues band John Mayall & the Blues breakers.In the  next year recording they named their album  The Blue breakers and Eric Clapton and in this album Eric got the  praze of  being the greatest guitarist of his age! Even though everything was going  good in this band Eric Clapton left and a month later  He joined up with jack Bruce and ginger baker to form the band cream. When Eric Clapton was in this band he had a lot more success with his guitar playing stills  and that  The band had  three great albums and they were called Fresh cream, Wheels on fire and Disraeli gears. That this band did a lot of  touring in the united states and they got the status of the international Super star. But like all bands that Eric Clapton is in they broke up  and they broke up this bands is because everyone egos were getting way to big so Eric left the band. After that he really didn't have to much success, he tryed joining a few different bands but they never went anywhere. But a big accomplishment Eric Clapton had was in 2000 When he was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame!

billy joel

 I  would have to say that William martin Joel aka billy Joel is one of the best rockers ever in rock in roll! When Billy was a child his musical experience was  when his mother forced him to learn how to play the piano. He started playing the piano when he was only 4 years old and he kept with it; by the age of 16 he was  a pro at it. That billy  was in three bands before he could even drive a vehicle and he never finished high school he dropped out! Then in 1970 billy Joel created this first album  and it was cold spring harbor. This album wasn't very good at all and billy was  mad about this album. After that he moved to Los Angeles and stayed under the music radar for about 2 years then he started writing again. Then he had his breakout year in 1974 when he made  the album Street life serenade and in that album Billy Joel i would have to say he wrote his best song ever. That song was called piano man and that song made the top 20 hits. Another  Very good album that billy Joel made was The stranger and this album was his best because 4 of his songs in this made the billboard and all of them where in the top 25. In 1999 his sales of his songs made in to a 100 million dollars! Also that year the best thing happened to Billy Joel he was inducted in to the hall of fame of rock and roll and to top it all off That his idol Ray Charles inducted him! Some of billy Joel's songs are baby grand, Laura, this is the time, She;s right on time and Just the way you are. Billy Joel had his up and down in his life but that doesn't matter because he will go down as a great rock and roll artist in history!

Neil Young

 I would have to argue  That Neil young is one of the best of the best rock folk singer in rock and roll history! Neil young first started  to get into music is when in junior high Neil started a band called the jades. He worked  very hard perfecting melodic guitar style and also perfecting the whammy bar. A few new later he into a new band  but that didn't work out for him at all so he left the band the squirrels and started touring in folk clubs in Winnipeg. After that Neil Young moved to the united states from Canada  in 1966 with his friend Bruce Palmer. When they got here they went Los  Angele and started a band called Buffalo Springfield. The band started off good but a coupler years went by and Neil left the group but they did have a great thing happen to them. In 1997 they were inducted in to the rock and roll hall of fame. That wasn't the first time Neil young was in inducted into the hall of fame; the first time he was inducted was in 1995 for his solo career. In the late 1960's Neil  had his solo career he probably had did it for about two year until he started a new band called crazy horse. This band together made great music together and i would have to say one of there songs was heart of Gold that got up to number 1 in the rating on the rock and roll billboard. Some other songs they had were: walk like a giant, come on baby let's go downtown, Crime in the city, and roll another number. Like a lot of bands in the past Neil young was in  he broke away from this band as well.  Neil young will always be up there as one of the greatest rockers in the books With all of his great songs! He still lives today at the age of 67  still writing songs and trying to keep the rock and roll music alive with his newest album that he released in 2012 called Americana. 

beach boys

The beach boys are one of the greatest rock/pop bands of the 1960’s. The beach boys had a lot of success it there time and they were known as America’s band. The  beach boys formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961 and the  band member were  3 brothers Brian, Carl, Dennis Wilson and their cousin mike love and there two friends Al Jardine and  David marks. There famous  album  was released  in 1974 and the album was called endless summer. Some of the songs it this album were all summer  long, you’re so good to me, be true to your school, shut down, and The warmth of the sun. The beach boys have  record  36 billboard on the top 40 hits and they have also sold about 100 million sales of their music.  The beach boys basally wrote there music about having a free life and  being young in the California dream. They showed very fast development in the 1960's kinda  like the Beatles. The beach boys were  a great band all in all but in great rock bands there is always a dark side to everything  with drugs! The main person who did this was one the one  and only Brian Wilson. He suffered very bad from this addiction with drugs and it didn't help that  he had a mental illness either. It got so bad with the drugs and everything that  he withdrawal himself from the band. In the later years  Carl and Dennis Wilson died and in 2011  the five  group member who were still alive put  on a show for everyone for the last time. The biggest accomplishment  that the beach boys had is when 1988 when the original beach boys when everyone was in the band got inducted  into the rock and roll hall of fame. I really wish music could like it was in this time period because the music right now is awful!