Duane Allman was far beyond his years as a unique talent playing his guitar. As a youth he purchased a guitar which he bought from selling the parts of a motorcycle that he wrecked. After playing backup guitar for numerous musicians of various genres, he organized the Allman Brothers Band. The group released its first album in September 1969. The band pioneered Southern Rock & Roll, achieving quick success that paved the way for other bands in the region, like Lynyrd Skynyrd. Duane's father was murdered when he was very young. His mother took him and his brother Gregg from Norfolk, Virginia to Daytona Beach, Florida, where the boys were raised.

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Long before he sold 120 million albums globally in a career that has endured artistically and commercially like no other performer's in the rock era Bruce Springsteen was a working-class New Jersey kid with a dream and a guitar. By the time he was 16 he was playing ShopRite openings and school dances around his hometown of Freehold. For many high school is where the garage-band dreams die but time spent fronting a band called Steel Mill in the heyday of Asbury Park's Upstage scene gave him the courage to sidestep college and put his name out in front soon enough making him The Boss to his band.

The Beatles came up in the rock and-and-roll era when Chuck Berry Little Richard and Elvis Presley defined cool. Their early shows were big beat bacchanals the Brit interpretation of that crazy American sound. But it wasn't long before they were absorbing and creating more and more music from folk to experimental to psychedelia and hard rock quite literally changing music forever and influencing hundreds of great bands in the process.

The effect that Kurt Cobain Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl have had upon contemporary music is immeasurable. They brought alternative to the masses in a way that no other punk or metal band had before or has since. By combining their varied influences they created a distinct voice that hit the right chord with the music world at that time.