Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in an airplane crash, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as " the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll.

Love received critical acclaim, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, for what film critic Roger Ebert called " quite a performance ; Love proves she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress ".

The term was reportedly coined in 1971 by rock critic Dave Marsh in a review of their show for Creem magazine.

New Jersey rock critic Jim Testa wrote " Put a Bullet Through the Jukebox ", a vitriolic screed attacking disco that was considered a punk call to arms.

In January 1979, rock critic Robert Christgau argued that homophobia, and most likely racism, were reasons behind the backlash, a conclusion seconded by John Rockwell.

Though not a commercial success, Gilded was measured by rock critic Robert Christgau as " an ominous, obsessive, tongue-in-cheek country-rock synthesis, absorbing rural and urban, traditional and contemporary, at point of impact.

According to rock critic Dave Marsh, the attitude and public persona of punk rock can be traced to Jan and Dean.

"... the music has an exotic frothiness and the string settings are among the most gorgeous in rock history ," wrote music critic Dave Marsh, who co-edited the book.

Sadly, pop / rock music criticism reflected this situation ; for a while, I was the only pop critic of Hispanic descent at a top 10 newspaper.

Writing towards the end of 1987, music critic Simon Reynolds dubbed Public Enemy " a superlative rock band ".

In critic Steven Blush's description, " The Sex Pistols were still rock ' n ' roll ... like the craziest version of Chuck Berry.

Dave Marsh was the first music critic to employ the term punk rock: In the May 1971 issue of Creem, he described?

The mainstream pop punk of latter-day bands such as Blink-182 is criticized by many punk rock devotees ; in critic Christine Di Bella's words, " It's punk taken to its most accessible point, a point where it barely reflects its lineage at all, except in the three-chord song structures.

* A History of Punk 1990 essay by rock critic A. S. Van Dorston

In further response to this issue, rock critic Jim DeRogatis, a former Rolling Stone editor, published a thorough critique of the magazine's lists in a book called Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics ( ISBN 1-56980-276-9 ), which featured differing opinions from many younger critics.

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 ).

" When it finally saw official release in 1998, critic Richie Unterberger declared the record " an important document of rock history.

Crash was, despite his erratic behavior, generally regarded as a brilliant lyricist ( a contemporary critic described him as " ransacking the dictionary "), and the final lineup of Smear, Doom, and Bolles had become a world-class rock ensemble by the recording of ( GI ), turning in a performance that spurred an LA Weekly reviewer to write, " This album leaves exit wounds.

Robert Christgau gave the album an A +, and Seattle Rocket critic Bruce Pavitt called Let It Be " mature diverse rock that could well shoot these regional boys into the national mainstream ".

During this time, Hickman released a first solo recording, " Palmhenge ", which received " Voices Choice " accolades in The Village Voice by the rock critic Robert Christgau and a positive review in Blender magazine.

However, film critic Roger Ebert gave the film 3 stars out of a possible 4 and commented that " Some will say the movie breaks tradition by telling a medieval story with a soundtrack of classic rock.

In critic Steven Blush's description, " The Sex Pistols were still rock ' n ' roll ... like the craziest version of Chuck Berry.

A critic from the New York Times argues that Wilco has a " roots-rock ... which reached back to proven materials: the twang of country, the steady chug of 1960s rock, the undulating sheen of the Beach Boys, the honky-tonk hymns of the Band and the melodic symmetries of pop.

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.

He wanted to develop collaborations between soul singers and rock ' n ' roll, hoping to make an album with Ray Charles and gospel legend Mahalia Jackson.

According to Charles Aaron, power ballads came into existence in the early 1970s, when rock stars attempted to convey profound messages to audiences.

Charles was involved in the Liverpool music scene, writing and singing lyrics for a number of local rock bands.

His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".

The Ordovician, named after the Celtic tribe of the Ordovices, was defined by Charles Lapworth in 1879 to resolve a dispute between followers of Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Murchison, who were placing the same rock beds in northern Wales into the Cambrian and Silurian periods respectively.

* Robert Orin Charles Kilroy ( ROCK ), from the Styx rock opera Kilroy was here-see Mr. Roboto

Other hits recorded by the band included " See You Later, Alligator " in which Haley's frantic delivery contrasted with the Louisiana languor of the original by Bobby Charles, " Don't Knock the Rock ", " Rock-a-Beatin ' Boogie ", " Rudy's Rock " ( the first instrumental hit of the rock and roll era ) and " Skinny Minnie ".

* Charles Shaar Murray ( born 1951 ), English rock music writer

The crew were able to get onto the rock and apart from a youth of 14 were saved by four men ( three of these from Tintagel: one of them Charles Hambly received a Vellum testimonial and three medals for bravery afterwards ).

In an interview recently Farrell discussed the byplay between his M * A * S * H co-stars, David Ogden Stiers and Harry Morgan: " David was like a rock, when he was concentrating, when he was being Charles Emerson Winchester III, you just couldn't get him, except for Harry Morgan.

Among them are Leonard Bernstein ( in the 1950s ), Comedian Michael Ian Black, Daryl Hall ( of Hall & Oates ), Jascha Heifetz ( in the 1940s ), Charles Ives, Hope Lange, film director Barry Levinson ( a current resident ), rock singer Meat Loaf ( Marvin Lee Aday who was Joel Barlow High School softball coach while his daughters attended the school during the 1990s ), actress Jessica Tandy and her husband Hume Cronyn ( in the 1940s and 1950s ) and Mary Travers, of Peter, Paul and Mary.

According to resident Charles Stuart, whose property contains the fabled rock where Blue Dog and his master were killed, the first written account of the Blue Dog legend dates back to 1897.

In June 1954, Charles Medura was killed in the mine by a fall of rock, the last of many fatalities at the mine.

Surrounded by cliffs of Baraboo Quartzite, the village is two miles south of a notable rock formation located in Ableman Gorge, Van Hise Rock, which was used to explain the processes of structural geology by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Charles R. Van Hise.

Charlie Brown's repeated line of " I got a rock " caused some stir among many viewers of the show, according to Charles Schulz in the book and retrospective TV special " Happy Birthday, Charlie Brown.

The group's lead singer, Jay Black, dubbed Becker and Fagen " the Manson and Starkweather of rock ' n ' roll ", referring to cult leader Charles Manson and spree killer Charles Starkweather.

In the early 1980s, Ronstadt was criticized by some ( mainly rock critics ) for playing two concerts, as a replacement for Frank Sinatra, in South Africa under apartheid, at a time when Ray Charles, The Beach Boys, Tina Turner, Sinatra, Shirley Bassey and Cher were also performing there.

The film opens with Buddy Holly's beginnings as a teenager in Lubbock, Texas and his emergence into the world of rock and roll with his fictional good friends and bandmates, drummer Jesse Charles ( Don Stroud ) and bass player Ray Bob Simmons ( Charles Martin Smith ), soon to be known as The Crickets.

Additionally in the 1930s through the 1950s several jazz and blues singer-songwriters emerged like Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, and Nina Simone, as well as in the rock n ' roll genre from which emerged influential singer-songwriters Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Roy Orbison, Sam Cooke, Richie Valens, and Paul Anka.

The Charles Lloyd band was bridging the jazz and rock spheres and Jarrett's performances ( which included playing inside the piano ) received much attention.

* Charles Austin, Matthew Murphy and Drew Yamada of The Super Friendz-Influential Canadian rock band of the 1990s

* 1967 Eric Carr ( Paul Charles Caravello ), drummer in the rock band Kiss