American rock music probably began in the 1950s, and was originally transformed from country music and black music blues. At this time, the most famous is Elvis Presley, although it sounds out of taste now.
From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, it was the era of folk rock. Bob Dylan and Jone Baze are representative figures, and their songs can still be heard a lot, some of which are familiar.
Later, in the late 1960s, psychedelic rock became famous, and many bands took drugs to perform on stage. The most famous is jimi hendrix, the God of Gator Band and Guitar, who also died of drug overdose.
The 1970s was the era of British punk and metal music. In the United States, there is a Fan Hailun who plays guitar, and now many electric guitar skills are created by him. There is also a famous Kiss band.
After the 1980s, there were many branches of music, but the most popular music in America was metal music, and there were more familiar bands at this time.
Everyone in the pop metal band knows guns and roses, Bonjovi and Skidrow at this time.
Metallica and Megadeth of Riptide Metal are also the "mainstream bands" of this era.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Grunge was a hit for a while, and everyone knew that it was nirvana.
There will be more styles after 90 years, such as sum4 1 of punk pop, greenday, Linkin Park of Numetall, etc. In short, it is not much different from what we heard today. Commercialization is getting more and more serious, but there is not much innovation.
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