Rock music in Italy

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Italian rock is a form of rock music produced primarily in Italy. The music genre has roots in the country as it spread in the early 1960s from the United States with the earliest versions of rock and roll during this period being cover versions or interpretative covers of already existing songs.

History

1960s and 1970s

See also:
Italian progressive rock

The first distinctively Italian singer-songwriter was

Bach. The result was an influx of classically influenced rock bands which fit right into the international move towards progressive rock
. Italian progressive bands include:

Some bands, like

Il Balletto Di Bronzo's YS is one of the most debated Italian prog-rock albums; Some calling it trash and others extolling it as one of the greatest progressive albums ever made. Another important album of the time was Arbeit macht frei by Area. They merged agit-prop lyrics, jazz-rock jamming, raw electronics, middle-eastern scales and psychotic warbling, creating an original mixture of different music styles. Area were fronted by Demetrio Stratos, one of the most original singers of his age, who recorded experimental albums entirely devoted to the human voice such as Cantare la Voce. The same period, the early 1970s, also saw the rise of Italian singers and songwriters like Lucio Battisti, Fabrizio De André, Franco Battiato, Paolo Conte and Francesco Guccini
.

By the end of the 1970s, Italian punk and comedy rock pioneers Skiantos had released 1978's Monotono, which kickstarted the Italian punk scene. Later bands like The Confusional Quartet and Gaznevada fused new wave and Italian varieta with punk and other influences.

1980s

In the 1980s, Italy boasted one of the most vibrant new wave, hardcore and thrash metal scenes. In the late 1980s, more extreme heavy metal bands appeared. Of these bands include:

1990s and beyond

In the 1990s, Italian avant-garde,

Zucchero, Eros Ramazzotti and Jovanotti (later: Nek and Laura Pausini
) all went on to become huge international pop names in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Other artists to emerge in the 1990s and beyond include:

See also

  • Italian progressive rock

References

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