Genres

During the 60's & 70's there was a lot of different genres around such as;

• Disco - ABBA
• Punk Rock -  The sex pistols
• Mowtown - Jackson 5
• Progressive Rock - Pink Floyd
• Glam Rock - David Bowie
• Minimalism - Phillip Glass
• Heavy Metal - ACDC
• Krautrock - Kraftwerk
• Funk - Jimi Hendricks
• Soul Music - Bobby Womack

From the list above you can see that there is a lot of famous artists up there who performed in 60 & 70's. these artists are still recognised today such as Queen. Recently two members of the band Brian May & Rodger Taylor formed with Adam Lambert who is an amazing singer just like Freddie Mercury.


They have done performances on and off since 2009 and in 2014 they announced a massive sell out summer tour which was held in June & July 2014. They had 19 different dates lined up in places such as Las Vegas and also New York City.

A musical was also based on the songs from Queen which was called 'We Will Rock You'. Another musical was Mamma Mia which also had songs from the famous band ABBA.

A lot of bands are all very popular now as you do get a lot of tribute bands for all sort of occasions.