• the song "The Show Must Go On" by the British rock band Queen was written by guitarist Brian May, and is about lead singer Freddie Mercury's desire to continue making music even as his health was deteriorating?
• the Polish rock band Czerwone Gitary reached the heights of its popularity in the 1960s, and was known as the Polish Beatles?
• Les Horribles Cernettes, a humorous rock band based in the CERN, supplied the first image on the web, posted in 1992 by Silvano de Gennaro and Tim Berners-Lee?
• Capitol Offense, the rock band of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, has opened for REO Speedwagon, Percy Sledge, Willie Nelson, and even Grand Funk Railroad?

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Hard rock

• the Australian hard rock band AC/DC has never won a Grammy Award despite receiving four nominations during their career?

Rock and roll

• Excello Records did not release south Louisiana black Creole musician King Karl's 1958 rock and roll ballad "This Should Go On Forever" until it had already become a national hit for Karl's hometown friend, Cajun swamp pop musician Rod Bernard?
• Louisville, Kentucky's first rock and roll venue, in Lake Dreamland, may have been burned down by an angry resident?
• rock and roll pioneer Chan Romero wrote the 1959 hit, "Hippy Hippy Shake" which was covered by The Beatles?
• Cornbread Harris, who performed on Minnesota's first rock and roll record, is the father of record producer Jimmy Jam?
• San Francisco Chronicle pop music critic Joel Selvin was an early member of the rock and roll band Rock Bottom Remainders, made up of authors and journalists?
• bandleader Joe Lutcher abandoned his secular music career because of his religious beliefs, and influenced rock and roll star Little Richard to do the same?
• seventeen-year-old rock guitarist Desireé Bassett has been called "the future of rock and roll"?
• the career of pianist Lincoln Mayorga has ranged from hit rock and roll instrumentals to Gershwin recitals in Moscow, by way of Lumpy Gravy and Pete's Dragon?