Many well-known rock bands continue to delight their fans with their creativity. These teams achieved world fame with their creativity and continuous work. Below we will talk about some of them.
List of famous rock bands
In 1968, the legendary British band Led Zeppelin was created. Having existed for 12 years, these musicians became one of those thanks to whom rock music developed. The team mixed in their sounding many styles, such as hard rock, folk rock, heavy metal, blues rock and others. Their music is a success today. Since its inception, the group has sold approximately 300 million copies of their albums.
Perhaps the real queen among other teams is Queen. Actually, the name of the group translates that way. This is a British musical group, formed back in 1970. Many famous rock bands formed precisely under the influence of Queen's creativity. These musicians are famous not only for their amazing music, virtuoso play, beautiful lyrics and the magical voice of vocalist Freddie Mercury. The Queen group is also a shocking image, the ability to create shows, both at concerts and in videos. Unfortunately, Mercury passed away in 1991, but the group continued to exist, and true connoisseurs can still attend a concert of their favorite band.
Many famous rock bands developed in parallel. The American hard rock band Aerosmith, for example, also formed in the distant 70th year. Almost immediately they became famous and for several years successfully gave concerts, they were played on the radio. However, in the late seventies and early eighties, some participants began to have problems while taking drugs. Two decided to leave the team, but after persuasion manager Aerosmith reunited. Things went smoothly again, and soon they became even more successful than in the first stage. The most famous rock bands still release albums, delighting their fans.
Following hard rock, the heavy metal genre began to develop. Many famous rock bands played in this style, such as Led Zeppelin, Kiss, Guns'n'Roses, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, AC / DC. However, the Iron Maiden team, formed in 1975, had the greatest influence on the development of this genre. They have sold over 85 million copies of their albums worldwide.
For many years, the vocalist and leader of the group is
Steve Harris. The group continues to give concerts and record albums to this day.
It would be unfair not to talk about the famous Nirvana musical group. Many famous grunge rock bands are their followers. And it is Nirvana that is at the origins of the development of this genre. A group formed in America in 1987. Two years later, they became successful, gave a lot of concerts and were one of the most rotated radio groups. In 1991, one of the most famous, as well as the most commercially successful album of the group was released. There were three studio albums in total. The last one was released in 1993. In 1994, group leader Kurt Cobain died. They still argue about the cause of his death, as still people around the world love the work of the Nirvana group. There is still a huge number of talented and famous rock bands, and the ones listed above are only a small part of them.