Rock and roll performers

List of performers of Rock and roll music

Early North American rock and roll (1951-1963)

• Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats (recorded "Rocket 88" in 1951)
• [Ike Turner]? (wrote "Rocket 88")
• [Les Paul]?
• [Chuck Berry]?
• [Eddie Cochran]?
• Everly Brothers
• Beach Boys
• [Dick Dale]?
• [Bo Diddley]?
• [Fats Domino]?
• Girl Groups
• [Art Haack]?
• Bill Haley and the Comets
• Buddy Holly
• Jan and Dean
• [Jerry Lee Lewis]?
• [Little Richard]?
• [Ricky Nelson]?
• Righteous Brothers
• Tommy James and the Shondells
• [Carl Perkins]?
• Elvis Presley

See also: Folk music

The "British Invasion" (1963-1967)

• The Beatles
• [The Kinks]?
• The Rolling Stones
• [The Who]?
• [Herman's Hermits]?

Psychedelia, "Progressive Rock" and Woodstock (1968-1974)

• Black Sabbath
• Blue Oyster Cult
• [Creedence Clearwater Revival]?
• The Doors
• Bob Dylan
• [The Eagles]?
• Genesis
• Grateful Dead
• Jimi Hendrix
• [Jefferson Airplane]?
• Janis Joplin
• King Crimson
• Love
• Led Zeppelin
• Joni Mitchell
• [Moby Grape]?
• [Moving Sidewalks]?
• Nirvana (original version)
• Pink Floyd
• Roxy Music
• Simon and Garfunkel
• The Velvet Underground
• [Captain Beefheart]? (aka Don van Vliet)
• Frank Zappa and the [Mothers of Invention]?

Return to Basics: punk, metal and other trends (1975-1987)

• The Sex Pistols
• The Clash
• Dead Kennedys
• [The Slits]?
• [The Fall]?
• Hüsker Dü
• [Elvis Costello]?
• KISS
• Metallica
• Minor Threat
• The Modern Lovers
• The Ramones
• REM
• Rush
• Patti Smith
• Television
• Tom Waits
• X
• The Damned
• Talking Heads
• [The Jam]?
• [Camper Van Beethoven]?
• [Dead Milkmen]?

Current (1988-present)

• Catatonia
• Nirvana (later version)
• The Pixies
• [PJ Harvey]?
• System of a Down
• Suzanne Vega
• Radiohead?
• Primus?
• [Red Hot Chili Peppers]?

Other individual artists who have or deserve entries (unsure how/whether to classify):

• Soul Coughing
• Morphine?
• [Kate Bush]?

Subcategories with or deserving of entries:

• Disco
• Funk
• Grunge Music
• Heavy metal music
  • [Speed metal]?
  • Death metal
• Psychedelic music
• Punk rock

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