* Aberdeen ( band ), an American rock band

* Adrian Young ( born 1969 ), American drummer for the rock band No Doubt

* " The Ark ", a song by American rock band Dr. Dog

Category: American folk rock musicians

* American Idiot, a 2004 album by rock band Green Day

Art historian Richard Poss took a more flexible approach, maintaining that the astronomical rock art of the North American Southwest should be read employing " the hermeneutic traditions of western art history and art criticism " Astronomers, however, raise different questions, seeking to provide their students with identifiable precursors of their discipline, and are especially concerned with the important question of how to confirm that specific sites are, indeed, intentionally astronomical.

Charles Hardin Holley ( September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959 ), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll.

Category: American rock guitarists

Category: American rock singers

William John Clifton " Bill " Haley (; July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981 ) was one of the first American rock and roll musicians.

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.

" Rock Around the Clock " was the first record ever to sell over one million copies in both Britain and Germany and, in 1957, Haley became the first major American rock singer to tour Europe.

Category: American rock singers

Oleg Bernov of the Russian-American rock band the Red Elvises plays a red electrified contrabass balalaika during the band's North American tours.

In 1962 and 1963, with his next band, Harmoniler (" The Harmonies "), he recorded cover versions of some of popular American twist songs and rearrangements of Turkish folk songs in rock and roll form, marking the beginning of the Anatolian rock movement, a synthesis of Turkish folk music and rock.

Ellas Otha Bates ( December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008 ), known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter ( usually as Ellas McDaniel ), and rock and roll pioneer.

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

Category: American rock guitarists

Category: American rock singers

Category: American rock singer-songwriters

Variously referred to as roots music, American folk music, or old-time music, this tradition has exerted a strong influence on all forms of American music, including country, blues, and rock and roll.

* 1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole – A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army

Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.

* 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek – the war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.

* AUDIO ( group ), an American R & B band of 5 brothers formerly known as TNT Boyz and as B5

* A. N. S, an American crossover thrash band.

In 1989 Jonathan Hellyer became lead singer, and the band extensively toured the U. S. and Europe with back-up vocalist Annie Conway and had one minor hit with the song " Cha Cha Heels ", a one-off collaboration sung by American actress and singer Eartha Kitt.

* Donna the Buffalo an American band from Trumansburg, New York

Bo Diddley was one of the first American male musicians to include women in his band, including " The Duchess " Norma-Jean Wofford, Peggy Jones ( aka " Lady Bo "), Cornelia Redmond ( aka Cookie ), and Debby Hastings, who led his band for the final 25 years of his performing career.

* The Cars, an American rock band

Other Chicano / Mexican American singers include Selena, who sang a variety of Mexican, Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 ; Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist ; and Los Lonely Boys, a Texas style country rock band who have not ignored their Mexican American roots in their music.

and the Mysterians, which was composed primarily of Mexican American musicians, was the first band to be described as punk rock.

The Commodores is an American funk / soul band of the 1970s and 1980s.

* Cortical Tectonics, the third studio album by American progressive metal band Canvas Solaris.

The cornet also features in the British-style concert band, unlike the American concert band or wind band, where it is replaced by the trumpet.

Hold Back the Dawn is a 1941 romantic film in which a Romanian gigolo marries an American woman in Mexico in order to gain entry to the United States, but winds up falling in love with her.

Sam & Dave songs have been frequently used in movie & TV soundtracks and commercials, including " Hold On, I'm Comin '" on the soundtrack of the 2007 hit film American Gangster.

The first international rocksteady hit was " Hold Me Tight " ( 1968 ) by the American soul singer Johnny Nash ; it reached number one in Canada.

McCartney also used the same quip, this time for an American audience, to introduce The Beatles ' performance of ' I Want to Hold Your Hand ' as the finale of their set for The Ed Sullivan Show at The Deauville Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida on 16 February 1964.

Among independent publications, in 2010 the Intercollegiate Studies Institute published We Still Hold These Truths by director of American Studies Matthew Spalding.

* 2002 American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold

EMI and Brian Epstein finally convinced American label Capitol Records, a subsidiary of EMI, that the Beatles could make an impact in the US, leading to the release of " I Want to Hold Your Hand " with " I Saw Her Standing There " on the B-Side as a single on 26 December 1963.

" I Want to Hold Your Hand " was also released in America on Meet The Beatles !, which ground-breakingly altered the American charts by actually outselling the single.

Beforehand, the American markets were more in favour of hit singles instead of whole albums ; however, two months after the album's release, it had shipped 3, 650, 000 copies, over two hundred thousand ahead of the " I Want to Hold Your Hand " single at 3, 400, 000.

Three months later, The Beatles released " I Want to Hold Your Hand ", which climbed all the way to number one, launching the British invasion of the American music scene, paving the way for more Beatles records, and releases by other British artists.

In 1990, the group won the Billboard Music Award for Hot 100 Single of the Year for " Hold On ," and in addition was nominated for four Grammy Awards and two American Music Awards.

* Drop, Cover, and Hold On — American Red Cross drill ( pdf file )

" I Want to Hold Your Hand " was the band's first number 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, starting the British Invasion of the American music charts.

Hold Out is the sixth album by American singer / songwriter Jackson Browne, released in 1980 ( see 1980 in music ).

* 1941: Hold Back the Dawn: American Lady at Bullfight

* American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold by Harry Turtledove ( 2002 ): In the 1932 Presidential election, Calvin Coolidge defeats incumbent President Hosea Blackford.

The American single's label declared that the song was from the United Artists release Eight Arms to Hold You.

Eddie Deezen ( born March 6, 1958 ) is an American character actor, voice actor and comedian, best known for his bit parts as nerd characters in 1970s and 1980s films such as Grease, Grease 2, Midnight Madness, 1941 and WarGames, as well as for larger roles in a number of independent cult films, including Surf II: The End of the Trilogy and I Wanna Hold Your Hand.

The piece ends with a recording of American football chants (" Hold that line!

His best-known book, We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition ( Sheed & Ward, 1960 ), collects a number of his essays on such topics.

He remands his few prized possessions, including a miniature model of his classic car, a stash of jazz recordings, a Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy by the American Astronomical Society he received long ago, a Science Journal International diploma, and an old t-shirt he wore on the first day he posited causal solutions to ultrahyperbolic wave equations and, more memorably, when he vanquished Professor Muskrave at the CalSci Texas Hold ' em Tournament, to his closest friend, Charlie.

Lisa Bevill ( born June 24, 1961 in Fayetteville, Tennessee ) is an American Contemporary Christian musician best known for Christian radio hits such as No Condemnation, Only a Saviour and Hold On.

The Hold Steady is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2004.

Its AM counterpart ( now WWRC ) was the first American radio station to play a Beatles song when it played " I Want to Hold Your Hand " in December 1963.