Music

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AC/DC

In 1963, Williams and Margaret Yang decided to emigrate from Scotland's Glasgow to Australia by taking four of their five children with them. George, Margaret, Malcolm and Angus, The Malcolm Brothers and Angus Yang, decided to quit school and get involved with music. In November 1973, 20-year-old Malcolm suggested to his 18-year-old brother, Angus, to follow him as the guitarist of the band he made and composed of Dave Evans on the vocals, Colin Bourges on the drums and Larry Van Krid on bass.

Next month, they played in audiences in the Sydney Cheers area and even on New Year's Eve. They played songs by Chuck Berry (of which they were most influenced), Beatles, Rolling Stones, Free, as well as two of their own tracks. This was the first appearance of AC / DC.

Official website: www.acdc.com

The Rolling Stones

The world's largest rock-roll band. It was formed in 1961 and remains active at the forefront of current events until now.

It has released 55 albums (studios, labs and collections), with sales exceeding 200 million copies, while concerts have "plowed" every corner of the globe.

32 Rolling Stones songs have climbed to the top spots in the UK and US success stories.

Official website: www.rollingstones.com

Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin got their name from a commentary by Keith Moon and John Entwistle of Who, who had said the band would "fall like a lead balloon" or a lead zeppelin.

They have sold over 300 million albums, and for a week in 1979 they had eight of their albums on the American Billboard Top 200.

In 1969 on their debut album, they needed to record only 36 hours and cost 1,782 British pounds. In those days the band was together just two and a half three weeks.

They had been sued by Eva von Zeppelin, a descendant of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who designed the airship from which they took their name. Eva described the band as "screaming monkeys" who did not have the right to use her family's name without permission.

They had refused to appear on the BBC BBC TV Channel's "Top Of The Pops" despite all the successes they had already had. This was extremely ironic, as from 1968 to 1981 and from 1998 to 2003, a version of their song "Whole Lotta Love" was the melody on the subject of the Show.

The sound of Zep, Stairway To Heaven, has been heard by more than 100 artists, including Tiny Tim, Frank Zappa, Dolly Parton, Elkie Brooks, Pat Boone and the London Symphony Orchestra. In 1993, Rolf Harris and his talent reached the No. 7 song in the Top 40.

Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, east London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. The band's discography has grown to thirty-eight albums, including sixteen studio albums, eleven live albums, four EPs, and seven compilations.

Pioneers of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Iron Maiden achieved initial success during the early 1980s. After several line-up changes, the band went on to release a series of UK and US platinum and gold albums, including 1982's The Number of the Beast, 1983's Piece of Mind, 1984's Powerslave, 1985's live release Live After Death, 1986's Somewhere in Time and 1988's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. Since the return of lead vocalist Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith in 1999, the band have undergone a resurgence in popularity, with their 2010 studio offering, The Final Frontier, peaking at No. 1 in 28 different countries and receiving widespread critical acclaim. Their sixteenth studio album, The Book of Souls, was released on 4 September 2015.

Official website: ironmaiden.com

Rory Gallagher

Rory Gallagher (Rory Gallagher, March 2, 1948, Bally, Ireland - June 14, 1995 London) was an Irish composer, guitarist and singer of blues and rock music. He is considered one of the greatest guitarists in electric blues. He was born in Ireland and grew up in County Cork. About the age of nine he attended Elvis Prisley in his television appearance and has since decided to work with the guitar by studying himself. At the age of twelve, he won his first electric guitar in a competition. Adolescent, he started playing adaptations to the successes of the season and appeared with his first band, the Fontana Showband, as a support act in various other bands. At age six, he formed his own blues band, Impact, with whom he had played in Germany and Spain in the '65s and '66s. The Stratocaster, who will accompany him throughout his entire career, whom he bought at a Cork store in 1961. The guitar is said to be the first of its kind in Ireland. Another musician had ordered him and he changed his mind because he did not like the color. So the guitar ended up in the hands of Galaher for a hundred pounds.

Official website: www.rorygallagher.com

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