Table of Contents
- 1 What is the most successful debut album of all time?
- 2 What is the biggest selling debut rock album of all time?
- 3 Who’s the highest selling female artist?
- 4 Who was the first person to sell one million records?
- 5 How did glam rock become so popular?
- 6 What is un-glam rock?
- 7 How did punk rock Change Your Life?
What is the most successful debut album of all time?
1. The Velvet Underground & Nico – The Velvet Underground (1967) “The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band,” said Brian Eno. For that reason alone, the album should rightly be considered the greatest debut LP of all time.
What is the biggest selling debut rock album of all time?
The debut studio album by American rock band Boston became the best-selling debut album in the US when released in 1976….48. George Michael – Faith (1987) 20m.
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| 3 | I Want Your Sex – Pts. 1 & 2 Remastered | 9:17 |
| 4 | One More Try – Remastered | 5:50 |
| 5 | Hard Day – Remastered | 4:48 |
What rock band had the best debut album?
Readers’ Poll: The Ten Greatest Debut Albums
- (tie) Pearl Jam, ‘Ten’; Guns N Roses, ‘Appetite for Destruction’
- Led Zeppelin, ‘Led Zeppelin’
- Boston, ‘Boston’
- Van Halen, ‘Van Halen’
- The Doors, ‘The Doors’
- The Strokes, ‘Is This It’
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience, ‘Are You Experienced’
- Nirvana, ‘Bleach’
Who’s the highest selling female artist?
Madonna Louise Ciccone
Madonna Louise Ciccone (or simply Madonna to you and I) is the only female artist to have sold more than 250 million units in claimed sales.
Who was the first person to sell one million records?
The first record to sell over a million copies was ‘Vesti la giubba’ from Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci, sung by the Italian opera singer Enrico Caruso (1873–1921). It was recorded in November 1902 and released by GT.
What bands are better than the Beatles?
11 bands better than The Beatles?
- Led Zeppelin. (Reuters)
- The Rolling Stones. 50 years on and counting, and still garnering a beggar’s banquet’s worth of satisfaction.
- The Velvet Underground.
- U2.
- Radiohead.
- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
- Rush.
- The Band.
How did glam rock become so popular?
All of this helped make glam a tremendously influential movement: early punks and New Wavers caught on to the style’s anti-hippie stance and brutal simplicity, while metal and hard rock bands looking to capture a younger and more varied audience began to assimilate the genre as well.
What is un-glam rock?
Un-glam rock, the all-grown-up, all-dressed-down rock of 1968– 70, made the glam gesture both possible and pointed: a defiant embrace of flash, frivolousness and folly.
What is a glam band?
Glam serves as an elastic label that covers all the obvious candidates but also some lesser suspects from art pop and theatrical rock, including The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, The Tubes and Queen.
How did punk rock Change Your Life?
Its lead protagonists were fearsome, wild-eyed, intimidating and exhilarating all at once, and laid out a blueprint which would become a touchstone not just for punk’s legacy, but that of modern alternative music as we know it. “It’s one of those clichés, but punk rock absolutely changed my life,” The Undertones’ bassist Michael Bradley told us.