by Escola Secundária de Monserrate, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

1. Rock português
Portuguese rock appears in our country in the 50th decade, with the creation, in 1955, of
the Walter Behrend, the first national rock group. During the next decades we saw the
developing of this musical kind explained by influences from other countries, mostly
England and the United States of America. As we know there were several famous rock
bands that made their first public appearance in the sixties. This way we had in
Portugal, new sounds that change the national music context, mostly during the eighties
when there were several groups with a huge sails volume including the top sailing
ranking in our country.
We can refer to two examples of a great success in Portugal:
GNR
Rui Veloso