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Hard rock is a form of rock and roll music that finds its closest roots in early 1960s garage rock.

AC/DC, The Stooges, MC5, Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple are renowned examples of hard rock.

Van Halen's music (until David Lee Roth's departure in 1985) perhaps best exemplifies the energy of the genre.

Hard rock achieved maximum popularity between 1969 and 1985, and soon thereafter gave way to hair metal.

Hard Rock is often loosely defined, and is primarily of use in describing radio station formats. There is often significant crossover with heavy metal music, but a few distinctions are worth noting:

Hard Rock typically features major key song construction, as opposed to heavy metal, which is often minor key oriented.

There is a heavy reliance on the pentatonic scale for most elements of song construction, and fifths (power chords) are often substituted for traditional chords. Chord progressions are commonly associated to 1-4-5 degrees of the scale, as in rock and roll.

Hard Rock lyrics are typically not as "dark" as heavy metal lyrics, and are often sexual in content.

Hard Rock is typified by a bright, trebly overdrive distortion effect on the guitars, lending to its overall sound. Drums can range from 100-150 Beats Per Minute, with 120 BPM being typical. Bass is usually warm sounding.

The guitar solo is very important part of a hard rock song, and leads to the credibility of the song just as much as the lyrics and vocal melodies do. Songs are generally hook laden, and consist of:

1. an intro
2. verse
3. chorus
4. verse
5. chorus
6. solo
7. chorus
8. an ending
There is much room for variation, and repetition of verses and choruses.

Jazz, Blues, and rock & roll were the roots of hard rock.

Punk rock, Gothic rock, industrial music, heavy metal, funk, and fusion also claim these roots, but branch off at different points, eliminating elements that are considered unnecessary, and adding elements to typify their genre.

Interestingly, death metal and industrial music also incorporate a march rhythm.

The term "hard rock" is also used as an umbrella term for genres such as Punk, Gothic rock, Industrial, and Metal, in order to distinguish them from softer, more radio friendly Pop music.

Obviously, the double use of "hard rock" has led to confusion in the past.

Some Elvis Presley Quotes

"A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business — live concerts." -Elvis at a press conference prior to his 1973 television special, "Elvis — Aloha from Hawaii, via Satellite".

" ▒Til we meet you again, may God bless you. Adios."

-Said in 1977 at the end of a concert during his last tour.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Elvis Presley (1935 — 1977) US singer, actor In "Rand Lindsly's HUGE Quotations File," an Internet collection of quotations.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Elvis Presley (1935 — 1977) US singer, actor

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have a very special use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

Elvis Presley (1935 — 1977) US singer, actor In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch "Rebel Without a Cause" a hundred times over.

Elvis Presley (1935 — 1977) US singer, actor In "James Dean in His Own Words," 1989.

I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

John Lennon (1940 — 1980) English singer, songwriter, musician Interview for KFRC RKO Radio, given 8 Dec. 1980, the day of Lennon's murder.

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. Johnny Carson (1925 — ____) US talk show host, comedian In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody . . . . Country music was always an influence on my kind of music.

Elvis Presley (1935 — 1977) US singer, actor In "The Book of Country Music Wisdom," ed. by Criswell Freeman, 1994.

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