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unusual facts about Pop-rock



17 Days

Seventeen Days, album by rock band 3 Doors Down, released 2005.

A Classic Case of Cause and Effect

A Classic Case of Cause and Effect is the second album by English rock band Laruso, released in May 2009 on Autonomy Recordings.

A Simple Plan

Simple Plan, a pop punk band formed in 1999 in Montreal, Canada

Andrew Rock

In the 2004 Olympic Games, Rock ran for the American 4x400m relay team in the qualifying heats, securing the team a place in the final.

Banda Uó

Banda Uó is an brazilian band of pop tecnobrega composed by Davi Sabbag, Mateus Carrilho, and Candy Mel started in 2010 on the city of Goiânia.

Beograd, uživo '97 – 1

Beograd, uživo '97 – 1 (trans. Belgrade, Live '97 - 1) is the first disc of the fourth live album by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1997.

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1955

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1955 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1988, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1955.

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1965

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1965 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1988, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1965.

Dan Stuart

Daniel Gordon "Dan" Stuart (born March 5, 1961, Los Angeles) is an American musician best known as the leader/singer/songwriter of 80s post punk, alt-country rock band, Green On Red (other members included Chuck Prophet, Chris Cacavas and Jack Waterson), and for his teaming with Steve Wynn as Danny & Dusty

Daniel Victor

He later followed that with the second single "The World is Darker" featuring Melissa Auf der Maur (of The Smashing Pumpkins, Hole and Auf der Maur), and then the driving rock song "Where We Are" featuring Rob Dickinson of the UK band, The Catherine Wheel.

Deweare

Deweare's music was greatly influenced by the resurgence of French punk cult bands such as Bérurier Noir and Ludwig von 88, as well as by rock musician, comedian and poet Alain Bashung and by American music artist Beck—another musician to whom Deweare's vocals have been compared.

Dusty Saxton

In 2005 Dusty responded to a MySpace ad for a guitarist spot in Dallas, Texas based rock band, Analogue, fronted by eventual Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights bassist, Nick Jay.

Eddie, Old Bob, Dick and Gary

Ira Robbins of Trouser Press lauded the band's single releases as "classy trash", noting that on the better tracks of the album, Tenpole Tudor's "good humor and rock energy are undeniably infectious".

Endless Harmony: The Beach Boys Story

The film is a biography of the American rock band The Beach Boys.

English Chamber Choir

The English Chamber Choir came into existence in 1972 its earliest engagements included Haydn's Nelson Mass, Fauré's Requiem and Kodály 's Laudes Organi with Hertfordshire Chamber Orchestra, and live performances at the old Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park, of the rock-opera Tommy with The Who.

Fire and Fame

Fire And Fame is a memoir co-written by Joerg Deisinger, former bassist and founding member of the German hard rock band Bonfire, and Carl Begai, a Canadian writer and music journalist.

Full of It

Sam tells lies like "I drive a Porsche", "My dad's a rock star", "My dog ate my homework", "I never miss a shot" (at basketball) and that Vicki Sanders and his English teacher Mrs. Moran are lusting after him.

Greetings from Imrie House

It contains singles "Just the Girl", "Catch Your Wave" and "Say Goodnight" and an iTunes single, "Pop Princess".

Har Gilo

Archaeological excavations in 1998 revealed the remains of two buildings and a rock-cut winepress, both dating back to the Iron age III (586-539 BCE).

Honey to the B

Honey to the B is the debut album album by pop singer Billie Piper, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music).

Kathleen Chalfant

They have a son, David Chalfant, who was the bass player for the folk-rock band, The Nields, and a daughter, Andromache, who is a set designer in New York.

Katie Stevens

In her performance of "Chain of Fools", DioGuardi told her she had found where she belonged: R&B-pop, but she needed to work on being younger.

KDRF

The format shifted to modern rock in early 2003 adding hard rock acts like System of a Down but also keeping bands like Coldplay from its old format and also playing 90s alternative bands like Green Day and Bush as well as modern bands like The White Stripes and later Modest Mouse and The Killers which were not heard on other local stations.

Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

To these ends, Klosterman engages on an "epic" road trip, visiting the death sites of rock stars such as Duane Allman and Kurt Cobain.

Kiss Symphony: Alive IV

The live versions of "Rock and Roll All Nite", "God of Thunder" and "Lick It Up" were featured on the soundtrack for the video game Tony Hawk's Underground.

League of Lights

Formed around vocalist Farrah West and keyboard player/producer Richard West from British rock band Threshold, League of Lights recorded their debut album with contributions from guitarist Ruud Jolie of Dutch symphonic rock act Within Temptation, drummer Mark Zonder of US progressive metallers Fates Warning, and bassist Jerry Meehan.

Lezlie Deane

In the 1990s she was recruited by producers Peter Rafelson and Michael Lewis to join the dance-pop group Fem2fem, and toured Europe and North America as an opening act for Nine Inch Nails (NIN) and Marilyn Manson.

Lummis Day

The first event, on Sunday, June 4, 2006, featured East L.A. rock band Quinto Sol, musician Severin Browne, Ann Likes Red, Cuban-born musician Juan Carlos Formell, Danza Azteca Cuahtlehuanitl, the Tongva-Gabrielino Native American Dancers, Pilipino folk ensemble Panama Rondalla and poets B. H. Fairchild, William Archila and Suzanne Lummis.

Marcus Harrison

Harrison played high school football at Mills High School in Little Rock.

Memić

Seid Memić, Bosnian singer and the vocalist for the Yugoslav rock band Teška industrija

Music of Zimbabwe

Jit is a generic term for electric guitar-driven pop, and includes wildly popular groups like the New Black Eagles and the Four Brothers.

Nintendocore

The rock group Minibosses "are one of the most well-established bands in the Nintendocore genre, with an impressive roster of covers including Contra, Double Dragon, Excitebike," and other video game themes.

Pisgah Mountain

The east end of the ridge is named Mount Pisgah and represents a hard rock knob that towers 700–900 feet above Lehigh River towns Jim Thorpe to the east, and Nesquehoning to its north.

Polish rock

Meanwhile, there was second wave of Polish rock called Krajowa Scena Młodzieżowa (Sztywny Pal Azji, Chłopcy z Placu Broni, Róże Europy, Kobranocka, Tilt, Mr Z'OOB, Rezerwat), but with minor market and/or artistic success.

Ripe Banana Skins

RBS also participated in the popular Paraguayan rock festival "Quilmes Rock", playing in front of more than 40,000 people.

Rock 'n' Roll Bolero

"Rock 'n' Roll Bolero" was later included as a bonus track on the remaster of the 1977 album Whatever Happened to Slade, the 2006 Japanese Air Mail Archive remaster of the 1979 album Return to Base, and part of the 2006 four-disc box set The Slade Box.

Rock art of Figuig

Comparable rock engravings have been described more to the east in the surroundings of Djelfa and in Constantine, Algeria.

Russell Thompkins, Jr.

From 1971 to 1974, the Stylistics had twelve consecutive U.S. R&B top ten hits and five top ten U.S. pop hits, including "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)", "You Are Everything", "Betcha by Golly, Wow", "Break Up to Make Up", and "You Make Me Feel Brand New".

Ryszard Riedel

Ryszard Henryk Riedel (September 7, 1956 in Chorzów - July 30, 1994 in Chorzów) – was the original lead singer of blues-rock band Dżem (Polish for 'jam').

Snorri

Snorri Snorrason (born 1977), an Icelandic singer who rose to popularity after winning the Icelandic version of Pop Idol,

Steve Zodiac

Steve Zodiac (pseudonym adopted from the lead character of Fireball XL5) is a rock guitarist and prolific songwriter, who gained recognition in the early 1980s as frontman of New Wave Of British Heavy Metal band Vardis.

Terry Waldo

Against the current tide of rock and roll, the young ragtimer played with Turk Murphy's Jazz Band, and studied with other prominent jazz musicians such as Pops Foster, Lu Watters, Wally Rose, and Clancy Hayes, all the while living in a room above Mcgoon's for one dollar per day.

Tessellation

"Tessellate" - song by the British alternative indie pop quartet Alt-J (∆).

The Emerson Theater

The album Live: No Time for Tuning by Indianapolis junk rock band Sloppy Seconds was recorded at the Emerson Theatre on April 15, 1995.

The Way I Rock My Clothes

"The Way I Rock My Clothes" is a single released by Hip-hop artist/Producer Funkghost.

Time Stands Still

Time Stand Still, the sixth studio album by American rock band The Hooters, released in 2007

Violent Silences

As well as addressing themes that appear to be close to the artist's heart, Violent Silences includes an electro-rock cover of the Talking Heads classic Psycho Killer and a collaboration with electronic-music legend Gary Numan, entitled "Crazier".

Volvelle

The rock band Led Zeppelin employed a volvelle in the sleeve design for the album Led Zeppelin III (1970).

Warner Brothers Presents... Montrose!

Side One closes with the long progressive-rock influenced "Whaler", pairing Ronnie Montrose's acoustic guitar alongside Novi Novog's viola.

Waydowntown

The radio station CJAY 92 that plays "Start A Rumour Day" throughout the film is a real rock station in Calgary, with the station's actual DJs (the DJ "Bob", is Bob Steele, no longer with the station).


see also

15092 Beegees

The members of the British pop-rock-disco group Bee Gees: Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb and their younger brother, singer Andy Gibb that was never a member of the group, were raised in Australia only 100 km from the discovery site of this minor planet.

Above the Noise Tour

The "Above The Noise Tour" is the first worldwide stadium tour undertaken by British pop-rock band McFly, almost seven and a half years into their career.

Att vara Per Gessle

Att vara Per Gessle (ISBN 91-0-011200-3) – (Being Per Gessle) is a book, written by Swedish journalist Sven Lindström about Swedish pop-rock singer/songwriter and Roxette co-founder Per Gessle in 2007.

Brice Conrad

Brice Conrad (born in Pfulgriesheim, France 18 July 1985) is a French singer-songwriter and musician of pop rock and folk music and is signed to Universal Music France.

Buchanan Brothers

They are not to be confused with the pop-rock trio by that name from the late 1960s, which included Terry Cashman, Gene Pistilli, and Tommy West.

BZN

BZN started out as a pop-rock band in their native Volendam in 1966, playing early-Bee Gees-like harmony pop.

Carli Muñoz

His latest release is a CD in the pop rock genre and the title is In My Soul, in memory of Carl Wilson and Dennis Wilson, released in February 2013.

Coz I Can

"Cuz I Can" is the debut single by the Swedish Pop/rock singer Ana Johnsson (as Ana) released from her (officially) first studio album Cuz I Can.

Daniel Kelaart

Daniel is the frontman of the pop rock band Remission Theory, however has also launched a career as an independent record producer where he has produced, engineered, mixed or written tracks for various bands such as For Our Hero, The Paperkites, Simple Plan, Antiskeptic, Declan Sykes, Michael Paynter, Have You Seen This Boy, Hometown, Dylan Joel, and Delamare.

Dewa Budjana

Slowly, his musical style changed from pop rock to jazz, as he started to incorporate influences from John McLaughlin of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Chick Corea, Yes, Gentle Giant, Kansas, Tangerine Dream, American Garage, Bright Size Life, Pat Metheny and Allan Holdsworth.

Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jive

Heckle and Mr. Jive is the seventh album by the pop rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley.

Ectoslavia

The music of Ectoslavia used a great deal of noise and static underneath melodic pop-rock songs, not unlike early Pavement EPs like Perfect Sound Forever and Slay Tracks (1933-1969).

Ertuğ

Ertuğ Ergin, a Turkish alternative pop-rock singer/song-writer

Gil Dobrică

He is most famous for his 1979 cover version of John Denver's song "Take Me Home, Country Roads" or simply "Country Roads" (adapted as "Hai acasă" - "Let's go home"), although he had performed a variety of musical genres (pop, rock, blues, soul, jazz, country) and performed several covers of artists as diverse as Ray Charles, Little Richard, Otis Redding and Bill Monroe.

Glay discography

The discography of Japanese pop rock band Glay consists of ten studio albums, forty-two unique singles, twenty-seven video albums, and sixty-four songs associated with various promotions.

Jackalope

Jakalope is a Canadian alternative pop/rock group formed in 2003 by industrial musician and producer Dave "Rave" Ogilvie.

Jarkko Ruutu

Ruutu's cousin, Raul Ruutu, plays bass in a Finnish pop rock band Sunrise Avenue.

Kalokairino Randevou me ton Saki Tour

The Kalokairino Randevou me ton Saki tour (Greek: Καλοκαιρινό Ραντεβού με τον Σάκη; English: Summer Fling with Sakis) was a small-scale Greek and Cypriot tour performed by Greek pop-rock musician Sakis Rouvas following his large-scale North American & Australian Tour with Antonis Remos.

Killerpilze

The Killerpilze (English/German for "Killer Mushrooms") is a German Pop-rock / pop-punk band from Dillingen an der Donau, Germany.

La dicha en movimiento

La dicha en movimiento is the first album by Argentine pop rock band Los Twist, released in 1983.

Mere Christianity

A passage in the book also influenced the name of contemporary Christian Texan Grammy-nominated pop/rock group Sixpence None the Richer.

My Forever

My Forever are an English pop/rock band based in Thirsk, North Yorkshire.

N.E.P.

In 2012 and 2013 it took part in the biggest Russian open-air rock festival Nashestvie run by the nation-wide pop rock Nashe Radio.

Natalia Lafourcade

When she was 17, Loris Ceroni gave Natalia the opportunity to be in a pop/rock group under his guidance, but when she wasn't sure, he encouraged her to go solo.

Nights Are Forever

Nights Are Forever is the fourth and breakthrough album by the pop rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley.

Nothing in My Way

After the French pop-rock band Bubblies, the single's release is notable as being the first ever commercial music release in USB format, a special edition limited to 1,500 copies.

Oleksij Kerekesha

Influenced by Western pop rock music, particularly groups like Pink Floyd, he began composing at an early age, combining Ukrainian lyricism with modern musical influences.

ONAR

They have collaborated with some of the most important representatives of the Greek pop-rock scene such as: Filippos Pliatsikas, Lavrentis Mahairitsas, Dionysis Tsaknis, Socrates Drank the Conium, Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Sakis Boulas, and Lakis Papadopoulos.

P3 Guld

P3 Guld is arranged since 2003 annually and is awarded by the Swedish radio station Sveriges Radio P3 to Swedish artists in pop, rock, hip hop and the like.

Paleka

Paleka has performed and recorded with the country's most respected pop, rock, and jazz musicians, including Sérgio Godinho, Jorge Palma, Mário Laginha, António Pinho Vargas, and Rui Veloso.

Pete McCracken

He has been a member of indie band The Plums (1992–1995), pop-rock band Deadstar (1997–2001) and country-tinged duo The Tulips (2002–2006).

In 1997 McCracken joined Melbourne pop-rock band, Deadstar, replacing previous bass guitarist Nick Seymour.

Peter Theobalds

He was originally guitarist for a multitude of underground bands including Xerox Girls (pop punk - 1992), Photographing Girls (psychedelic pop/rock - 1992-4), Three Days By Camel (Instrumental/experimental 1993-4), Salem Orchid (death/black/psychedelic metal 1994 - precursor to Akercocke) and eventually turned bassist with indie rock band Fosca and latterly British progressive death metal band Akercocke from 1997-2007 with whom he recorded four full length studio albums.

Sami Saari

Saari has often been labelled as the "King of Finnish Soul", but he has also worked with pop, rock and rap musicians such as Anna Puu, Elastinen, Jonna Tervomaa and Cheek.

Sarajevo school of pop rock

The Sarajevo school of pop rock collectively refers to the popular music created between 1960 and 1991 by artists and bands native to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then part of Yugoslavia).

Sensurround

The alternative pop/rock band They Might Be Giants released a song entitled "Sensurround" that was incorporated in the soundtrack to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie and (in a different, faster-paced recording) their EP S-E-X-X-Y.

Shanti Wintergate

"This Moment" was a spark of an album with catchy 3-4 chord pop/rock tunes that caught the attention of famed Warped Tour promoter Kevin Lyman and let to performances on 2006/2008 Vans Warped Tours.

Starker

Träume sind stärker ("Dreams are stronger"), a pop/rock album by the Austrian band Schürzenjäger

Sziget

Sziget Festival, an international annual pop/rock festival organised on Hajógyári-sziget (Shipyard Island), Óbuda, Budapest

The BossHoss

The BossHoss is a band from Berlin which started in 2004 with Country & Western style cover versions of famous pop, rock and hip hop songs, for example "Hot in Herre" by Nelly, "Toxic" by Britney Spears and "Hey Ya!" by Outkast.

The Shock of the Lightning

Noel said of the song on Shaun Keaveny's Radio 6 show, "It's a driving, pumping, pop, rock 'n' roll masterpiece".

The Veronicas: Mtv.com Live EP

The Veronicas: Mtv.com Live EP is an EP by the Australian pop rock duo The Veronicas.

The Wall Street Shuffle

"The Wall Street Shuffle" is a single by the British pop/rock band 10cc released in 1974.

The Words You Don't Swallow

The Words You Don't Swallow is the first full length studio album by American pop rock band Anarbor.

Van Atta High

Some of their most well-known songs include "Call Me Jersey," "Birthday Girl," and their pop rock cover to the Starland Vocal Band 70's hit "Afternoon Delight" (contracted with S1 Songs, a music publishing company).

Veden varaan

Veden varaan is a pop-rock album from the Finnish group PMMP.

WUFM

WUFM primarily plays alternative Christian music across several genres, with the most played including pop-rock, hard rock, punk, and hip-hop, as well as occasional emo, electronica/dance, and hardcore/metal.