dijous, 1 d’abril del 2010

Rock music
By David Planas

Rock music is a type of popular music which appeared in the 1950’s. It has its roots in other styles of music: the rhythm and blues, country music, folk music, Jazz and classical music.
The principal instruments which form this type of music are the electric guitar, bass guitar, drums and sometimes the organ or the piano.
In the 1960’s and 1970’s rock music developed different subgenres like soft rock, Glam rock, heavy metal, hard rock and Punk rock. In the 1980’s other types like new wave, alternative rock, grunge, Britpop and Indie rock.
Nowadays one of the most important types of rock is the Britpop which was born from (the) British alternative rock and is characterized by bands influenced by British guitar music of the 70s The principal groups which form this genre are Suede, Pulp, Blur and Oasis. The last groups created an important battle, called “the battle of the Britpop”.
Eurythmics
By Anna Sopena

Eurythmics is an English music group that plays Synthpop, New Wave and Pop Rock. It appeared in 1980 and in 1981 they were famous. The group was formed by Annie Lennox (vocalist) and David A. Stewart (composer). While they played they sold 75 milions DCs in the world. The most important album was "Sweet dreams (are made of this)". The group stopped playing in 1997.
Before they formed the group they were in a group called The Catch, later the group changed its name to The Tourists, and finally Annie and David split up and created the group Eurythmics.The name of the group is Eurythmics because Eu in Greek means good, so the name means good rhythmic.
This group got a lot of fame with “Love Is A Stranger”, “Who´S That Girl?”, “Right By Your Side” and “Here Comes The Rain Again”. But in 1998 they lost fame and they split up.
When they split up Annie Lennox started to sing alone, as a solist. She continued getting fame. Her discography is: “Diva”, “Medusa”, “Bare”, “Song of Mass Destruction”.