By May 2012, Kid Rock was still the first of a handful of high-profile musicians to endorse Mitt Romney, including Ted Nugent and Lee Greenwood.

* Wayne State University named a scholarship after Kid Rock for musicians.

The line " Rock & Roller Cola Wars " refers to Pepsi and Coke's usage of various musicians in advertising campaigns.

When compared to the Everly Brothers, who often used the same session musicians, Orbison is credited with " a passionate intensity " that, according to The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, made " his love, his life, and, indeed, the whole world to be coming to an end — not with a whimper, but an agonized, beautiful bang ".

However, The Modern Lovers was given an enthusiastic critical reception, with critic Ira Robbins hailing it as " one of the truly great art rock albums of all time ," and it influenced numerous aspiring punk rock musicians on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Sex Pistols ( who covered " Roadrunner " on The Great Rock ' n ' Roll Swindle ).

is steeped with references to the 1960s popular music scene ( at one point a list of 200 fictional bands performing at the Walpurgisnacht rock festival is reeled off ( including a handful of actual bands of the 60s ), and there are numerous references to the famous rock and roll song, " Rock Around the Clock "), and has influenced many bands and musicians.

Many musicians have claimed that they performed on the recording session for " Rock Around the Clock.

Notable Australian musicians include: the opera singers Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland ; country music stars Slim Dusty ( Australia's biggest selling domestic artist ) and John Williamson ; solo artists John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John, Pub rock band Cold Chisel, folk-rocker Paul Kelly ; Dance group The Avalanches ; jazz guitarist Tommy Emmanuel ; pioneer rocker Johnny O ' Keefe, global folk-rock band The Seekers, global rock and pop bands Men At Work, The EasyBeats, Air Supply, Crowded House, AC / DC, INXS, Little River Band, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Midnight Oil, Dragon, Silverchair, Youth Group, You Am I and Powderfinger ; the " pop princess " Kylie Minogue, Pendulum, Pop Rock duo Savage Garden and alternative music stars the John Butler Trio, Xavier Rudd, Wolfmother, Tame Impala and The Vines.

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Rock and roll has often been seen as a combination of rhythm and blues with country music, a fusion particularly evident in 1950s rockabilly, and there has been cross-pollination throughout the history of both genres, however, the term country-rock is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians of the late 1960s and early 1970s who began to record rock records using country themes, vocal styles and additional instrumentation, most characteristically pedal steel guitar.

" The year also saw Keaggy contribute a soaring re-recorded version of " Passport " on the album CPR 3 ; a compilation of musicians from the Christian Progressive Rock ( CPR ) scene.

The concerns of Stonehill, Taylor and Howard and other Solid Rock musicians led to an intervention on June 17, 1980 with Norman organized by Philip F. Mangano, the Solid Rock business manager.

The Righteous Brothers refer to Darin in their song, " Rock and Roll Heaven ", a tribute to dead musicians released months after Darin's death.

He frequently talks about American blues musicians as his inspiration, mentioning artists like Robert Johnson, Howlin ' Wolf, Blind Willie Johnson, and Willie Dixon at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony and the 2007 Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert with Led Zeppelin.

In 1986 Finn performed with The Rock Party a charity project initiated by The National Campaign Against Drug Abuse ( NCADA ), which included many Australasian musicians such as Reg Mombassa from Mental As Anything, Eddie Rayner, Tim Finn, Nick Seymour and Paul Hester of Crowded House, Geoff Stapleton, Mark Callaghan and Robbie James of GANGgajang, Mary Azzopardi of Rockmelons, Andrew Barnum of The Vitabeats, Lissa Barnum, Michael Barclay, Peter Blakely, Deborah Conway, Jenny Morris, Danny De Costa, Greg Herbert ( The Promise ), Spencer P Jones, Sean Kelly ( Models ), John Kennedy, Paul Kelly, Martin Plaza ( Mental as Anything ), Robert Susz ( Dynamic Hepnotics ) and Rick Swinn ( The Venetians ).

The festival also hosts a number of country, bluegrass and rock musicians on 2 separate stages, one located on Main street for Country and Rock performances, the other at Old Mill Park caters more to traditional bluegrass music.

They grew out of the Black Rock Coalition, a non-profit organization founded by ( among others ) Reid for black musicians interested in playing rock music.

A prominent venue, The Trades Club regularly features musicians of local, national and international renown performing a wide range of music ; including: Rock, Blues, and Folk, through Punk, Klezmer, Ska, Reggae, Dub and Jazz to Qawwali, Trance, Gnawa and Drum and Bass.

She also appeared in the BBC's Seven Ages of Rock documentary series and talked about the style of The Pixies ' music, and its influence on other musicians.

Two weeks later he returned to Lost Highway with Rock n Roll, which featured guest musicians including Melissa Auf der Maur, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, and Adams's girlfriend at the time, Parker Posey.

The following album Just Good Old Rock and Roll ( 1969 ) was recorded by another, completely different, group of musicians, originally from Colorado, who were assigned the Prunes's name, which was not legally owned by Hassinger ( according to James Lowe in a recent interview ).

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Rock Power was not fond of Hellhammer either-they considered it " the most terrible, abhorrent, and atrocious thing ‘ musicians ’ were ever allowed to record ".

As skiffle began to decline in the late 1950s, and British Rock and Roll began to dominate the charts, a number of skiffle musicians moved towards playing purely blues music.

Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

* A book on the history of Haley's most famous recording, Rock Around the Clock: The Record That Started the Rock Revolution by Jim Dawson was published in June 2005.

In 2006, Bear Family Records of Germany released what is considered to be the most comprehensive ( yet still incomplete ) collection of Haley's 1946-1950 recordings as part of its Haley box set Rock n ' Roll Arrives.

It is usually at the retreat where, isolated from their advisers, the heads resolve the most intransigent issues: leading to the Gleneagles Agreement in 1977, the Lusaka Declaration in 1979, the Langkawi Declaration in 1989, the Millbrook Programme in 1995, and the Aso Rock Declaration in 2003.

( 1966 ) and Shaw's two California-based zines, Mojo Navigator ( full title, " Mojo-Navigator Rock and Roll News ") ( 1966 ) and Who Put the Bomp, ( 1970 ), are among the most important early rock fanzines.

Despite some military attempts by the Spanish to retake it in the 18th century, most notably in the Great Siege of 1779 – 1783, the Rock has remained under British control ever since.

There are five bus routes in Gibraltar ( numbered one to five ) and buses run to most areas of the territory apart from the Upper Rock, which is a nature reserve.

Radley Balko has written that " Parsons may be the most influential artist yet to be inducted to either the Rock and Roll or Country Music Hall ( s ) of Fame.

Rock wool ( mineral wool ) is the most widely used medium in hydroponics.

Rock wool is made from molten rock, basalt or ' slag ' that is spun into bundles of single filament fibres, and bonded into a medium capable of capillary action, and is, in effect, protected from most common microbiological degradation.

When " Picture " was released it introduced Kid Rock to a wider audience, and was ultimately the most successful single on the album.

Rock critic Mikal Gilmore said, " Led Zeppelin — talented, complex, grasping, beautiful and dangerous — made one of the most enduring bodies of composition and performance in twentieth-century music, despite everything they had to overpower, including themselves ".

" Rock Island " from Meridith Wilson's " The Music Man " is wholly spoken by an ensemble of travelling salesmen, as are most of the numbers for British actor Rex Harrison in the 1964 Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady.

* 1824 — brigantine Helen of Dundee, bound for Quebec, foundered at Hasselwood Rock ; " the crew left most of the passengers to drown, including seven women and six children ".

* Rock ( manga character ), a recurrent major character in most of Osamu Tezuka's manga series

The same year, Orbison was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and initiated into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Bruce Springsteen, who concluded his speech with a reference to his own song " Thunder Road ": " I wanted a record with words like Bob Dylan that sounded like Phil Spector — but, most of all, I wanted to sing like Roy Orbison.

Two of his most impressive achievements in siegecraft took place in the Siege of Tyre and the Siege of the Sogdian Rock.

Rock microstructure or texture of rocks is studied by structural geologists on a small scale to provide detailed information mainly about metamorphic rocks and some features of sedimentary rocks, most often if they have been folded.

In an essay supporting the selection of The Rock, Roger Ebert, who was strongly critical of most of Bay's later films, gave the film a 3 1 / 2 out of four stars, calling it " an action picture that rises to the top of the genre because of a literate, witty screenplay and skilled craftsmanship in the direction and special effects.

Ralph, deserted by most of his supporters, journeys to Castle Rock to confront Jack and secure the glasses.

In recent years, there have been non-bracelet events at the WSOP ; two of the most notable are the " World Series of Rock Paper Scissors " and " Ante Up for Africa.

Stevie has been nominated for eight Grammy Awards as a solo artist, holding the record for most nominations for Best Female Rock Vocal without a win.

Their 1977 album, News of the World, contained two of rock's most recognisable anthems, " We Will Rock You " and " We Are the Champions ".