EXTRA CREDIT: “THE STONES AND COCK ROCK.” When author Terry Southern showed this bit of weirdness to him, he replied, “It’s a drag, man, the way people dig evil — not evil itself, but the idea of it … grooving on the vicarious notion of it … it’s their fascination with evil that locks us into this projection of it.”

This was NOT a characteristic of FM radio in the late 1960s and early 1970s:

The course includes a semester project to create an interactive, online timeline of events covered in the course.

EXTRA CREDIT: Record charts help us draw precise conclusions about the popularity or influence of a song or album.

Faces and Small Faces are two completely unrelated bands.

Roger Waters of Pink Floyd wrote in his Immortals essay that “Along with the Beatles, they gave those of us entering the business at that time something to aspire to that wasn’t pop, but was still popular.”

Stevie Winwood left the Spencer Davis Group to form which of the following bands?

Despite the acknowledged importance of rock music, determining exactly what “rock” means is NOT easy.

Denny Laine was a founder of two major rock bands: the Moody Blues in the 1960s and Wings in the 1970s. 

Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler wrote that as a singer, the thing he got out of The Yardbirds was that it wasn’t all about attitude; you had to have a great voice.