Rock music originated in the 1950s in the US and greatly influenced Western culture and youth subcultures from the 1960s-1980s. Groups like Mods, Rockers, and Teddy Boys formed in the UK in the 1960s, following specific music genres and styles. Hippies also emerged during this time in places like San Francisco and spread to the UK, often protesting through rock music about issues like drugs, war, sex, and politics. Rock blended genres like jazz, blues, and country and used instruments like electric guitar and drums. New subgenres later emerged by combining rock with other styles, leading to psychedelic rock and glam rock as artists experimented more.

2. Rock has vastly influenced the culture of the Western World, especially during the 1960s
through to the 1980s, when subcultures began to emerge within society – specifically within
youth.
Groups such as Mods, Rockers, and Teddy Boys developed during the 1960s in the UK,
following specific music and designing their own unique ‘image’ to individual each subgroup.
In the US, Hippies emerged in places such as San Francisco and the group quickly spread
across seas to the UK. These groups protested values sometimes preached within the music
of their rock bands as ‘protest songs’, demonstrating over things such as drugs, war, sex and
politics.

3. ‘Rock’/’Rock n’ Roll’ is a genre of music originating in the USA in the 1950s prior to being
quickly popular and vastly developing in the UK during the 1960s.
Rock music has roots in other genres e.g. Jazz, Blues and Country, and utilises drums and the
electric guitar to provide a distinctive ‘Rock N’ Roll’ sound.
During the ‘Golden Age’ of the 1960s, subgenres emerged, combining other genres with
rock such as folk and raga. This fast led to the creation of the new genres such as
psychedelic rock and glam rock as artists began to experiment more and more with their
instruments and classic genres.
A lull was reached sometime during the 1960s as the rock genre was forced to contend with
new music and genres such as Brit Pop which had quickly swept through the USA (known as
the ‘British Invasion’).
Contending with the subcultures which has grown from rock and roll, were new groups such
as Goths, Punks, Emos and Skinheads.

4.  Pink Floyd
 Elvis Presley
 AC/DC
 Guns N’ Roses
 Led Zeppelin
 The Rolling Stones
 David Bowie
 Queen
 Black Sabbath