Arena rock
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Arena rock is a style of rock music that became mainstream in the 1970s. It typically involves radio-friendly rock music that was designed to be played for large audiences.
This Queen concert in Drammen, Norway, in April 1982 shows the scale and lighting of an arena rock concert, emphasis being on the performed spectacle.
Singer Steve Perry of Journey became one of the faces of arena rock in the late 1970s and early 1980s
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Hard rock
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Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard rock music was produced by the Kinks, the Who, the Rolling Stones, Cream, Vanilla Fudge, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In the late 1960s, bands such as Blue Cheer, the Jeff Beck Group, Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin, Golden Earring, Steppenwolf, and Deep Purple also produced hard rock.
Baker, Bruce and Clapton of Cream, whose blues rock improvisation was a major factor in the development of the genre
Led Zeppelin live at Chicago Stadium, January 1975
The Who on stage in 1975
Kiss onstage in Boston in 2004