MUSC 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Marc Bolan, Janis Joplin, Freddie Mercury
28 Mar 2016
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Stabbing during the rolling stones" 1969 performance at altamont. 1970 shooing of vietnam student protestors at kent state university. Deaths of brian jones, jimi hendrix, janis joplin, jim morrison. London music scene that lasted from 1971-1975. Musical simplicity that hearkened back to early rock and roll. Spectacle becomes the most important element of the show. Over-the-top costumes, choreographed performances, ariicial stage performances. Born mark feld, irst performed in an acousic duo called tyranasoreus rex. In 1970, traded his acousic guitar for an electric and was joined by arist mickey. Outer space inspired songs such as cosmic dancer planet queen and. Most commercially successful group since the beatles. Brought the genre to its fullest theatrical potenial. Born david jones, performed in obscurity through most of the sixies. Inspired by andy warhol and the new york drag scene. In the early 1970s shows become increasingly theatrical. The rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars (1972)
