Rock Music

  • Patti Smith

    Patricia Lee Smith is an American singer, songwriter, poet, and author. Her 1975 debut album, Horses, made her an influential member of the New York City–based punk rock movement. Smith has fused…

  • J.D. Souther

    John David Souther was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was “a principal architect of the Southern California sound and a major influence on a generation of songwriters”. Souther wrote and…

  • Phil Spector

    Harvey Phillip Spector was an American record producer and songwriter known primarily for his orchestral pop productions and recording technique, dubbed “the Wall of Sound”, and decades later for his trials and…

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Nicknamed “the Boss”, Springsteen has released 21 studio albums spanning six decades; most feature the E Street Band, his backing band…

  • Grace Slick

    Grace Slick is an American musician and painter whose musical career spanned four decades. She was a prominent figure in San Francisco’s psychedelic music scene during the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.

  • Del Shannon

    Charles Weedon Westover, known professionally as Del Shannon, was an American musician, singer, and songwriter, best known for his 1961 number-one Billboard hit “Runaway”, which was covered later by various major artists,…