The most famous rock bands of the 20th century

Many famous rock bands continue to please their fans with their creativity. These teams have achieved world fame through their creativity and continuous work. Below you will find some of them.

List of known rock bands

In 1968, the legendary British band Led Zeppelin was created. Having existed for 12 years, these musicians became one of those, thanks to whom the rock music developed. The team mixed in its sound many styles, such as hard rock, folk rock, heavy metal, blues-rock and others. Their music is a success today. Since the beginning of the band's existence, about 300 million copies of their albums have been sold.

Perhaps the real queen among the other teams is Queen. Actually, the name of the group is translated like this. This is a British musical group, formed back in 1970. Many famous rock bands were formed under the influence of Queen creativity. These musicians are famous not only for their amazing music, virtuosic play, beautiful lyrics and the magical voice of vocalist Freddie Mercury. The Queen group is also an outrageous image, the ability to create shows, both in concerts and in clips. Unfortunately, Mercury died in 1991, but the group continued to exist, and true connoisseurs can still attend a concert of their beloved band.

Many famous rock bands developed in parallel. The American hard rock band Aerosmith, for example, also formed in the far 70th year. Almost immediately they became famous and for several years successfully gave concerts, they were on the radio. However, in the late seventies and early eighties, some participants began to have problems with the use of drugs. Two decided to leave the team, but after the arrangements of the manager Aerosmith reunited. Things got better again, and soon they became even more successful than at the first stage. The most famous rock bands still release albums, pleasing their fans.

Following the hard rock began to develop a genre of heavy metal. This style was played by many famous rock bands, such as Led Zeppelin, Kiss, Guns'n'Roses, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, AC / DC. However, the Iron Maiden team, formed in 1975, had the greatest influence on the development of this genre. They sold more than 85 million copies of their albums around the world. Over the years, the vocalist and leader of the band is Steve Harris. To give concerts and record albums the band continues to this day.

It would be unfair not to talk about the famous musical ensemble Nirvana. Many famous rock bands playing in grunge style are their followers. And it is "Nirvana" that stands at the roots of the development of this genre. A group was formed in America in 1987. Two years later they became successful, they gave many concerts and were one of the most radio-rotated groups. In 1991, one of the most famous, and also the most commercially successful album of the band was released. Total studio albums were three. The last of them was released in 1993. In 1994, the leader of the group Kurt Cobain died. About what is the cause of his death, arguing so far, as still people around the world love the work of the group Nirvana. There is still a huge number of talented and well-known rock bands, and the ones listed above are only a small part of them.