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27 unusual facts about rock


Ad-Rock

Horovitz was born to Doris Horovitz (née Keefe) and playwright Israel Horovitz and raised in Manhattan, New York.

Adam Horovitz

Ad-Rock (born 1966), stage name of Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys

Afro-rock

Afro rock is (an offshoot of Afrobeat) is a popular dance music pioneered in the late 1960s and early 1970s by such groups as Monomono, Osibisa and Alhaji K. Frimpong.

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

Jim Rossignol of Rock, Paper, Shotgun noted in his review of A Machine for Pigs that it "is a marvellous, revolting, disturbing sequel to Dark Descent".

Cave-In-Rock, Illinois

Duff was living upriver a few miles, either at Battery Rock or across the Ohio River at what would become Caseyville, Kentucky, when in 1797, Samuel Mason moved his base of operations from Diamond Island and Red Banks to the cave and made it the home of river pirates.

In 2009, Artist Greg Stimac photographed Cave in Rock's cave for his series of outlaw hideouts.

Crowd surfing

In December 2004 when the Beastie Boys performed at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, Ad Rock stopped partway through a song to warn the crowds to stop surfing as somebody had been injured, following up the discouragement with "that shit is so old" and telling them to "save that shit for the MTV music awards".

Crunchball 3000

Kieron Gillen of Rock, Paper, Shotgun described the game as a streamlined version of Speedball 2, unfavourably comparing Crunchball 3000 to both Speedball 2 and the browser football game Kickabout League.

Mate choice

Bird: Bird species are typically biparental in care, and may also be maternal like the Guianan Cock-of-the-rocks, however the reverse may also hold true.

Often an Orphan

Porky then sings Rock-a-bye Baby as he carries Charlie back and puts Charlie down.

Project Runway Korea

At last, surprisingly, the winner of this neck-and-neck competition is Park Myeong-su by the judges' Rock-paper-scissors decision.

Robert Florence

"Cardboard Children" is a regular feature on boardgames that Florence now contributes to UK-based PC gaming blog Rock, Paper, Shotgun.

Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie

The recording was featured on the 1989 song medley "Swing the Mood" by Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers, which was no. 1 for five weeks on the UK charts, becoming the second best-selling single of 1989 in the UK, and also went no. 1 in these countries in 1989: Norway, Ireland, Germany, France, Austria, Australia, and Holland.

Rock-a-Doodle-Doo

Rock-a-Doodle-Doo is a popular song and hit single by British singer Linda Lewis.

Rock-a-Mambo

Orchestre Rock-a-Mambo was an African jazz band from Brazzaville of 1950s.

Rock-climbing equipment

In the 1980s and early 1990s, the trend was to wear tight, brightly coloured clothes often made from Spandex.

Rock-cut tombs

Other notable clusters include numerous rock-cut tombs in Israel, at Myra in Turkey, Petra in modern Jordan, and Larnaca.

Rock-Ola

During the 1920s, Rockola was linked with Chicago organized crime and escaped a jail sentence by turning State's Evidence.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Alongside the panel of Fox News anchors was a psychiatrist by the name of Carole Lieberman, who remarked: "Video games have increasingly, and more brazenly, connected sex and violence in images, actions and words. This has the psychological impact of doubling the excitement, stimulation and incitement to copycat acts. The increase in rapes can be attributed, in large part, to the playing out of such scenes in video games."

Rock!!!!!

# "I Danced" – 2:12 (taken from the poem "I Danced Before I had Two Feet" by Max Dunn)

Rock'n Roll Holiday: Live in Atlanta

Rock'n Roll Holiday: Live in Atlanta was an early live show of Memphis-based garage punk rockers Oblivians, recorded in August 1994 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Rock'N'Roll Show 2008

The two-disk box set features a recording of the NHK Hall stop on her Rock'N'Roll Show 2008 concert tour, a recording of a free concert held at Yoyogi Park, as well as Shiho Ochi's trip to San Francisco to become closer to her idol Janis Joplin by meeting with Sam Andrew and other members of Big Brother and the Holding Company.

Rock's Backpages

The database contains contributions from over 300 journalists, primarily from the US and UK, including journalists such as Dave Marsh, Nick Kent, Charles Shaar Murray, Nick Tosches, Mick Farren, Carol Cooper, Al Aronowitz and Ian MacDonald.

Rock/Creek

They have two flagship stores, one in downtown Chattanooga and the other at Hamilton Place Mall, two paddling stores and an e-commerce site.

The Ferry Boat Inn

Over the next few years the Ferry Boat became established as one of the most important venues for local bands, catering for all types of alternative music, with a leaning towards punk rock, ska punk, metal, hardcore and Post-rock.

The Jodimars

Additional recordings exist from a demo session in 1955 ("Flip, Flop and Fly", "Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie" (written by Bill Haley) and "The Big Beat").

Uprock

In this sophisticated and rhythmic form of Rock-paper-scissors, one would have to dance thoughtfully as to not step forward and inadvertently get one's head "sledge hammered".


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.

Ahmed Fakroun

Fakroun has collaborated with international producers including Tommy Vance, Papathanassiou Vangelis, Nicholas Nicorelli, Riccardo Sinigaglia, Group classical rock Enid, Jean Ferre, Jean-Baptiste Mondino and Mark Harris.

Amah

Amah Rock, a rock located on a hilltop in southwest Sha Tin, Hong Kong

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.

Bad Afro

The name, logo and the original slogan “Pushing Scandinavian Rock to the Man!” was inspired by blaxsploitation movies from the early 70’s like Superfly, Foxy Brown and Dolemite.

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.

Bojer's skink

It occurs in patches of the Black River Gorges National Park and on some off-shore islands of Mauritius including Ilot Vacoas, Round Island, Serpent Island, Ilot Gabriel, Pigeon Rock, Flat Island, Gunner’s Quoin, Ile aux Aigrettes, and Ile de la Passe.

Bungo Yoshida

Concerned by falling audience numbers and a lack of young people taking up bunraku, Yoshida combined the ancient art form with his love of rock music, which he combined for a 1980 adaptation of The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (Sonezaki Shinjū) with the music written and performed by Japanese rock musician Ryudo Uzaki, and occasionally with a live orchestra.

BZN

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

Canada 2014

Canada 2014 is the name of a concert tour by the Buffalo-based rock band Goo Goo Dolls, in support of their album Magnetic.

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.

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.

Frogcircus

That year, the band appeared at a special feature show on United States-Television channel HBO to premiere the record, and also headlined the Campus Rock Festival together with Spanish rockers Dover, as well as appearances with Nada Surf, The Godfathers and Mick Taylor.

Front Row

Front Row Club Issue 1, a 1998 live album by British rock group Marillion

Gunrock

He is named after Gun Rock, who was born in 1914 and was the offspring of English Triple Crown winner Rock Sand and race mare Gunfire.

Jogighopa

Within the city are the remains of the five rock cut rock-cut caves, examples of Salasthambha period architecture.

Kerryn Tolhurst

This was followed by a successful stint in Country Radio (1972–73), after which he formed one of Australia's most successful country-rock bands, The Dingoes.

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.

Lovedrug

After signing to The Militia Group, an indie-rock label, the band released their first full-length Pretend You're Alive on July 27, 2004.

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

Peroxwhy?gen

gen (pronounced peroxygen) are a two-piece American rock band based in North Carolina and formed by professional wrestlers Jeff Hardy and Shannon Moore.

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 Springs Uplift

The Rock Springs Uplift is an area of uplifted Cretaceous to Eocene rocks in Wyoming surrounded and once covered by sediments of the Green River Formation which were deposited in the Eocene Lake Gosiute.

Ruth Pointer

Continuing as a trio, the group found their biggest success covering tunes of rock, pop and New Wave with singles such as "Fire" (1978), "He's So Shy" (1980), and "Slow Hand" (1981).

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').

Sólo Tú

"Sólo Tú" ( English: Only you ) is the first official single by Mexican rock guitarist Sergio Vallín featuring Raquel del Rosario from his first album Bendito Entre Las Mujeres on August 10, 2009.

Song for a Sleepwalker

Song for a Sleepwalker was the second single to be released from the album The Official Fiction by Australian rock group Something for Kate.

Storer Communications

Although the company had success in the Top 40 rock and roll format with WJBK in Detroit and WIBG "Wibbage" in Philadelphia, most of its radio stations, including WJW and WSPD, featured more conservative music formats, typically middle-of-the-road (MOR) or beautiful music.

Strong Rock Christian School

In the GHSA Class A Girls Soccer Tournament, Strong Rock beat Providence Christian Academy 3-2 in the first round, but lost to Pace Academy 1-3 in the semifinal.

Tectura virginea

It favours rock pools and smooth rock covered with encrusting red algae such as Lithothamnion on which it feeds.

The Gutter Twins

In July 2007, the music website Pitchfork Media announced that the duo, "two of the alt-rock era's greatest frontmen," had signed to Seattle label Sub Pop.

The Kooks

Calling The Kooks "an important reminder that there are just as many mediocre bands in the UK as there are in the United States" reviewer Jenny Eliscu of Rolling Stone claimed the album was "utterly forgettable, shoddily produced retro rock that at its worst sounds like a Brighton-accented version of the Spin Doctors".

The Stone Book Quartet

When she asks for a book, he shows her an older writing – his own stonemason's emblem carved in rock deep within Alderley Edge and dating back countless centuries.

The Twelve Sisters

In Tambon Mon Nang, Phanat Nikhom District, Chonburi Province, there is a shrine to the Twelve Sisters with the rock they used as pillow when they wandered in the wilderness and a Carissa carandas tree.

The Walls Fell Down

"The Walls Fell Down" is a third single by the English rock duo The Marbles, Lead vocals by Graham Bonnet it was released in March 1969, and it was written and produced by Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb, of the Bee Gees, and was also produced by Robert Stigwood, It reached #28 in the United Kingdom, but in the Netherlands it reached #3.

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".

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.

Water supply and sanitation in Gibraltar

A 17th-century Spanish writer, Alonso Hernández del Portillo, asserts that "the city contained many tides and fountains of very sweet and healthy water" and that "fountains of fresh water could be seen spouting out of the sea near the foot of the Rock", possibly referring to a spring at a fault called the Orillon (at the site of the later Orillon Batteries) in the north-west face of the Rock.

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).

WUKY

Owned by the University of Kentucky, it is an Adult Album Alternative (Indie Rock) station that airs over 100 hours of music a week, in addition to programming from NPR, Public Radio International, the BBC, and American Public Media.

WXCI

As one of a handful of stations playing alternative rock in the US in the early 1980s, WXCI helped popularize new bands such as REM, Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, U2, Culture Club, Duran Duran, and Black Flag.