by Sean Passmore | Mar 2, 2025 | Academy Of The Rock N Roll AF, Blog, Music U Need 2 No, Rock N Roll Fashionista Magazine
The New York Dolls, a pioneering glam rock band composed of five influential members, each with their own remarkable stories and achievements. Johnny Thunders (1952-1991) Born John Anthony Genzale, Thunders was born on July 15, 1952, and died at 38 under mysterious...
by Sean Passmore | Oct 8, 2024 | Academy Of The Rock N Roll AF
Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) is an American musician and composer best known for her pioneering work in the field of electronic music. During the early 1960s Carlos was instrumental in the development of the Moog synthesizer, the first...
by Sean Passmore | Sep 28, 2024 | Academy Of The Rock N Roll AF
After five unprecedented decades in the music industry, Linda Ronstadt announced her retirement from performing at the age of 65 in 2011. A teenager in the mid 1960s, Ronstadt fronted the rock group Stone Poneys, scoring a Top 10 hit with Monkee Michael Nesmith’s hit...
by Sean Passmore | Sep 24, 2024 | Academy Of The Rock N Roll AF
The Carter Family was a traditional American folk music group who recorded between 1927 and 1944. They were the first vocal group to become country music stars, and were among the very first groups to record commercially produced country music. Their music had...
by Sean Passmore | Sep 19, 2024 | Academy Of The Rock N Roll AF
Italian opera singer Enrico Caruso is the world’s first ever international recording star. Born in 1873, he sang professionally from the age of 22 until a year before his death at age 48 in 1921. Caruso’s career included 863 appearances at New York’s...
by Sean Passmore | Aug 26, 2024 | Academy Of The Rock N Roll AF, Blog
Russian composer Igor Stravinsky’s ballet and orchestral concert work The Rite Of Spring was first performed on May 29, 1913 at the Theatre Des Champs-Élysées in Paris. The extremely new and avant garde nature of the work caused a riot within the confines of...
