Hello everyone, are you ready to rock? Class is starting! To begin, I've been listening to some of your comments before class, and I gather many of you think heavy metal and hard rock began with Sabbath, Zeppelin, Rainbow, Kiss, and the Mark II Deep Purple. Some of you even credit Blue Oyster Cult. For you, classic rock means Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, and Metallica. Nothing wrong with that. But, believe it or not, rock and roll before "Iron Man" had many, many examples of what would become the genre you love, more than you likely think. True, The Beatles weren't often on the hard edge beyond songs like "Helter Skelter." But "She's So Heavy" was pretty heavy, seems to me. The...
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