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- Rock music [r]: A form of popular music with a prominent vocal melody, accompanied by guitar, drums, and bass. Rock music usually has a strong back beat, which evolved from earlier rock and roll and rockabilly music. [e]
Other related topics
- Classic rock [r]: A radio format usually encompassing the mid-1960s to early 1980s years with an emphasis on guitar based bands such as Led Zeppelin or Bad Company. Since the 1980s, classic rock has also been used to loosely describe a genre of music redolent of the radio format. [e]

