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4th period 7th grade rock and roll research 2011

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i m kayla m and i am lucky enough to be sitting here with the latest members of zz top billy gibbons dusty hill and frank beard we are having a discussion about their lives and band you are one of the few people that will get to join us enjoy q when did zz top form billy we formed in 1969 as my former band the moving sidewalks was breaking up my old friends here hill and beardy were in a band called american blues before the found the genius of myself and zz top but that s just how we started with who we have here now before this zz top had other members that didn t work out but that s a whole other story q how did you guys get started individually dusty i got a guitar for christmas when i was eight at first i traded with my brother for a bicycle but ended up almost breaking my neck billy i also got my first guitar for christmas although it was quite painless unlike dusty s experience q what do you think will happen to your band frank i m sure we ll be doing what we ve always been doing rockin out taking a break,tourin like madmen and making some records we ll be rock stars until we die and we ll still be rock stars after that q how are your guys relationships after three decades of performing together all we re still good friends we tick each other off every now and then but we always work it out or just take a break and ignore it like it never happened if we didn t get along we wouldn t still be together or planning to go into afterlife rockin together laughs q what would you say most of your music is about frank i would say most of our music is kind of loose we try to write and sing about just having a good time it doesn t mean that all we do is party we definitely don t it just means we like having a good time sometimes our music is inappropriate but it s life q last question billy and dusty do you ever see yourself without beards and frank do you see yourself growing a beard billy laughs i m sure dusty and i will keep our beards unto their hair all falls out dusty i think billy s right i love my beard more than more cats laughs frank hey i can grow a beard anytime i want laughs well there you have it folks thanks for joining us and thank you zz top for being here i m looking forward to our next meeting and i m sure our audience is too.

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alice cooper and his way up q how did your fans react to your famous shock rock a i believe that they were exactly as the name indicates they were shocked i don t think anyone was prepared for what they saw some people even fainted q how did you come up with the name alice cooper a well we were all thinking about how we needed a name and suddenly a picture of an innocent school girl with the name alice cooper popped in our heads only she wouldn t be so sweet she would have a hatchet behind her back q what was your bands best hit a oh definitely schools out which reached number one in the uk and stayed there for more than half the year we were pretty impressed ha-ha q did your band have any problems on the way to stardom a of course we had problems what band doesn t but we had problems with how the 70 s were about peace and love and the bands were against war and drugs and any kind of violence really so we had problems with competition q do you have any siblings a yes i have an older sister she is two years older than me she married one of the co-writers crandall that wrote dance yourself to sleep sabrina

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how does it feel to be on stage singing jacob h its something else hearing the crowd scream your name it is truly the best felling you can have on the stage how did this band start for you guys and such at a willing age well there s not much to tell about us starting up this band we have we were just a couple of willing teens to make some music an then we did a couple of gigs and well the word got out and a record and other stuff just kept coming our way what the funny part is we got are name off a vacuum an then our front bonscott passed and i think we learned something about that experience we were founded and we just came out with our new album black ice what was your biggest hit i wood probably be thunderstruck but we made a big jump in1979 we recorded over a six month period in london all thanks to highway to hell and then are first ever album let there be rock in 1977 well it was great having you here to get some details thanks it was great be here thanks for having us.

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aerosmith lives on written by natalie g the band started out with just three members in nineteen-seventy forty years back the past is gone it goes by like dusk to dawn steven tyler and joe perry and tom hamilton started the group our first show was in boston and three years later we got a record deal just remember you got to lose to know how to win our first album was released the same year self named aerosmith but then we started to break all the things come back to you between nineteen-seventy nine and nineteen-eighty six we lost two guys and all managed to go to rehab then in nineteen-eighty four we were once again aerosmith finally we were having some luck walk this way was at number four and and permanent vacation was released in nineteen-eighty seven lettin out three hit singles chorus aerosmith lives on lives on dream until your dreams come true aerosmith lives on lives on dream until your dream comes through aerosmith lives on lives on aerosmith lives on aerosmith lives on now we have fourteen total albums we have had twenty five total tours sold over one hundred and fifty million albums world wide we have all been to rehab nominated for seventeen grammy awards but we only won four were in the rock and roll hall of fame and here we are today still having those sweet emotions

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who s that i see walking into fao schwarz it s the amazing madonna wearing her fuzzy winter hat with her `pop star sunglasses i decided to see if she would stop for a cup of coffee and an interview q how would you describe yourself a personally i think i m made up of several parts part spiritualist part narcissist part children s book author part mother part retro and part futuristic q what was the worst accident you ve ever had a well i fell of off a horse and i broke eight of my bones including my collar bone i got on a different horse the morning after even though to doctors told me not to q ouch what is your goal in life a actually i have two goals to rule the world and to stand next to god q where did your career start a well when i was 17 i went to new york i only had $35 in my pocket when i got there the mark kamins got my demo and sent it around to the record companies i eventually got signed with sire records we signed the contract at a hospital with the president of sire records q what do you think your best skill is a well i would say singing but that would only be stating the obvious now wouldn t it other than that i think my best skill would be manipulating people q is it true that your father married one of your many housekeepers a yes all completely true he married her when i was 10 three years after my mothers tragic and unexpected death i was very unhappy about his choice i thought he would marry somebody just like my mother had been q what do you think is your favorite album a well hmm that s a toughie well i really like confessions on a dance floor it was a wonderful album and it was recorded with a lot of ambition q what was the latest song you have recorded what do you like about it a well the song is called it s so cool i really like this song because i have to opportunity to work and sing with my daughter she s a very talented singer and really fun to work with q so has your role model always been marilyn monroe why do you like her so much a well i m sure that when i was younger i had some other choices about who i liked and wanted to be like marilyn is just perfect absolutely perfect interviewed and written by katarra

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the man in black i sang many songs with groups when i became a musician like elvis presley i was born a country boy in february 26 1932 born to ray and carrie rivers cash a wanna be singer now known as the man in black brandon y yeah i was born a country boy in february 26 1932 i was born to ray and carrie rivers cash a wanna be singer now known as the man in black i grew up wanting to be a musician on the farm where my family and i lived .when i was 12 i first played a guitar yeah i was a country singer farm boy married man now still called the man in black i then became famous as a country singer known as the man in black after the death of my wife june carter cash i died in 2003 where i lay next to her in peace i was born a country boy in february 26 1932 i was born to ray and carrie rivers cash a wanna be singer now known as the man in black

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hi i m alyssa and i m here interviewing robert nesta marley or as his fans know him bob marley q:who was your inspiration towards music a:mentally i was inspired by hope but the man who really put hope in me was louis ferris a singer q how many kids do you have and do they have any influence on your music a i have 13 kids lmani sharon cedella ziggy stephen stephanie julian makeda karen damian robbie ky-mani and rohan two were adopted none of my children had influence on my music my music just comes form me an other musical inspirations q why didn t you stop you life changing cancer before it stopped you a religious reasons rastafarian beliefs say that the body must be whole that to have an amputation would be a sin that his faith would ensure him living forever regardless of the cancer.

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hi i m jaymie c and i m sitting here with one of the first rap superstars run d.m.c so my first question is what was it like being one of the first rap superstars and bringing rap into homes that have never heard it before we started from experience i mean i joseph simmons run started dj-ing for kurtis blow and that kind of started my journey to rap i started on the streets and i called up daryl mcdaniels d.m.c to join me from then on we started rapping on the streets with jam master jay and then to the stages to perform huge concerts like superstars daryl were you interested in rap before run had contacted you no not really i was more interested in basketball and sports i had collected comic books too but when run had called me and i listened to his tape i was way more interested in it how many finished albums did you guys have in the end and why didn t you make more we released seven finish albums ultimate run d.m.c crown royal down with the king back from hell tougher than leather raising hell and king of rock i mean we would ve made more albums but i was getting tired of touring and performing i wanted to pursue more activities and our fellow friend jam master jay who was part of run d.m.c was murdered on october 30 2002 at that point d.m.c was the only one left but he went solo i m so sorry to hear that but that is all for our interview thanks for coming run d.m.c it was definitely a pleasure

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van halen lyrics by:lindsey h van halen formed in 1974 but became popular to the public eye in 1978 now they are the best band since aerosmith chorus van halen s first album released in 1978 and entered the top 40 in the united states they sold more than 2 million copies around the world after their first album soon became certified gold and sold over 500,000 copies chorus repeats the best of van halen volume 1 was there fifth #1 album they received multi-platinum certification from the riaa recording industry association of america for 10 million copies sold michael jacksons beat it guitar solo was done by eddie van halen he makes simple guitar chords sound like a melody of sound that s some of the many reasons why van halen will always be remembered in metal history

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who s that band i see at meadowlands arena east rutherford nj usa pink floyd i ask them if they will answer some question q how did your band get together a we were at the regent street polytechnic in london when we became a group q-how many songs do you have since you started a-71 total since we stared q-what was your biggest hit a the biggest hits in are group are the top 10 cds q-what happen in 1997 a-in 1997 we play a song called echoes q-did the people have a favorite person in the group a-no everybody was find with the audience 1 in the flesh 2 one of these days 3 the happiest days of our lives 4 another brick in the wall pt 5 the fletcher memorial home 6 comfortably numb 7 us and them 8 final cut 9 money 10 time 11 run like hell 12 sheep 13 echoes q-is your band still playing a-no we are not the same group we lost two of are people and they are syd barrett who play the guitar and rick wright who play the keyboard zachary g.

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hi i m jaret f and i m here with the lead singer of the rolling stones mick jagger and he has agreed to do an interview with me so i was wondering for my first question how did the rolling stones become a band well it started when me and dick taylor were playing together in little boy blue then keith richards joined plus a few more people and then were a band i have heard that the band have had some trouble with drugs well me and keith richards spent one night in jail for possessing illegal drugs keith was also found guilty fur possessing cocaine the disaster at altamont was pretty bad what exactly happened it s a horrible story i was in charge of hiring security so i hired a biker gang called the hells angels but that was a big mistake with them a riot broke out and a man was stabbed when the helicopter came to pick us up no one spoke because we were all paralyzed with shock what was the first single you guys produced our first single was come on and decca records helped us so when did the rolling stones become a band we became a band back in 1962 we hold the record for being the longest going rock and roll band i have 1 more question where are you guys now well actually we are still performing and back in 09 we got offered millions of dollars to tour the united states well thanks for answering those questions bye

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buddy holly interview buddy holly is a rock-n-roll singer with good taste in style and thought of his own lyrics or songs like that ll be the day and peggy sue there was a lot of people that he new that we know today q why did you have your brother larry give you a thousand dollars a the reason is so i could get a new fender stratocaster guitar and some stage clothes but i did pay him back q what did you study about in school a i studied leatherworking and blueprint reading and i was a member of the vic vocational industrial club as being a member of the school choir q so how did that ll be the day get its name a well me and jerry allison had watch a john wayne movie and each time that wayne became mad with something someone said he d said that ll be the day that catch phrase became the title of my first hit q so was your last name really spelled holley a yes but when i was done with my first record the person who was publishing it he misspelled my last name so i kept my last name without the `e q so who were the people that were suppose to be on the plane with you a well there was richie valens j.p richardson the big bopper and of course the pilot who was driving the plane q why did you take a plane instead of the bus a well my bus kept breaking down one time i had to make a fire in the bus with newspaper because there was no heat and of course the bus broke down at the time patty s.

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the beach boys the brothers and friends i m interviewing them today 1-where did brain dennis carl wilson live california state los angeles county rolling stone music 2-what was your biggest hit and when good vibration it was on top of the chart interview with the beach boys 3-how many names did you guys have we had many names until brain dennis and carl wilson decided on one that reflected in a passion shared by thousands of teenagers surfing 4-did every body surf a lot no only dennis surfed regularly 5 was every song about the beach or something with beach like surfing no there was album called pet sounds 6-did any of you guys play any sports well only brian he played baseball in varsity andrew h.

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hello my names mackenzie keffer and i m here with the legend the king of pop michael jackson so my first question is never land how did it begin before in 1988 i bought the land which was at the time called sycamore valley ranch and renamed it to never land ranch the home was influenced by the childhood i never had if you don t mind me asking what made you get so many plastic surgeries i had my first plastic surgery in 1979 when i was practicing a spin and fell on my face i was doing a pepsi commercial that involved fireworks the fireworks burned my face i ended up doing plastic surgery i kept doing it over and over again and trying to make my face back to normal the reason his face has white patches is because i had skin problems i used make-up to cover the rest of my face white i ended up getting over 40 plastic surgeries how many marriages did you have i had two marriages they both ended up in divorce my first was to lisa marie presley on may 18th 1994,and divorced in january 18th 1996 my second marriage was to debbie rowe november 15th 1996 she had my first two kids prince michael joseph jackson 13 and paris michael katherine jackson 12 my third child prince michael jackson ii aka blanket born in 2002 he had a surrogate mother michael why did you insist on wearing a a mask out in public one reason is hide my face while recovering from one of my plastic surgeries also because i had vitiligo and as a result of all the pigment in my skin dying i became hypersensitive to sunlight why did you make you children wear masks in public after the jackson 5 when did it start and why did you guys split up because it would make them harder for a kidnapper to recognize them if a kidnapper doesn t know what my kids actually look like then they wouldn t be able to pick them out if they went out with the nanny or someone occasionally no one would know who they actually were because no one could ever get a clear photo of them when they were out in public with me the jackson five started their career in 1964 and the single big boy was released in 1968 it all started when we were little boys we loved to sing and dance my father actually helped us start the band off we ended the jackson 5 in 1979 when i went solo and started my career off by mackenzie k

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