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Titolo: 100 momenti topici del rock

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What is a rock'n'roll moment?
Is it Elvis' hips? Or is it the birth of acid house? Or is it Napster? The
answer is, of course, all of them. And so many more. 
This list has been
voted by the writers of 
NME.COM
 - the course of music was irrevocably
changed by each and every one of these 100. Taken as a whole, each of these
seismic events practically define music today. 
  1. Kurt Cobain's
death
2. The Sex Pistols swear on TV
3. Dylan goes electric
4. The KLF's
art terrorism at the Brits 1992
5. The deaths of Tupac Shakur and Biggie
Smalls
6. The birth of acid house
7. Napster
8. The Manic Street
Preachers' Richey carves '4 Real' into his arm
9. Berry Gordy founds
Motown
10. James Brown at Harlem Apollo
11. Bowie retires Ziggy Stardust
12. Run DMC and Aerosmith in the first rap/rock crossover
13. 'Rapper's
Delight' - hip hop's breakthrough record
14. Woody Guthrie invents
political pop
15. The Wu-Tang Clan's Ol' Dirty Bastard goes on the run
16. Cover shot of The Clash's `London Calling' album
17. The Beastie Boys'
audience riots in Liverpool
18. Public Enemy release 'Fight The Power'
19. M/A/R/R/S reach Number One with 'Pump Up The Volume'
20. Elvis shocks
America with his gyrating hips
21. Jerry Lee Lewis is banned from Britain
22. U2 and Ash get together to try to bring peace to Northern Ireland
23.
John Lennon claims that The Beatles are bigger than Jesus
24. The Rolling
Stones' 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' video
25. New Order release 'Blue Monday'
26. The Dead Kennedys ridicule San Francisco's rock aristocracy at a local
awards ceremony
27. 2 Live Crew get done for obscenity
28. Syd Barrett
loses his mind
29. Charles Manson hears The Beatles' 'White Album'
30.
Phil Spector revolutionises production techniques
31. The Jesus And Mary
Chain incite a riot at a London gig
32. Michael Jackson moonwalks
33.
Gene Vincent introduces leather boots and booze to rock'n'roll
34. The
Battle of Britpop (Oasis vs Blur)
35. Robert Johnson sells his soul to the
Devil
36. Method Man/Mary J Blige team up in the first hip hop/soul
crossover
37. The Rolling Stones at Altamont
38. The BBC ban Frankie Goes
To Hollywood's 'Relax'
39. George Michael outs himself on video
40. The
Smiths' first tour
41. Serge Gainsbourg tells Whitney Houston that he'd
"like to fuck" her on a French chat-show
42. The first Velvet Underground
gig after meeting Andy Warhol
43. The utter debauchery of New York's
Studio 54 nightclub
44. Super Furry Animals' 'The Man Don't Give A Fuck'
single
45. The death of Buddy Holly
46. The Prodigy's 'Firestarter' video
47. Boy George introduces sexual ambiguity to the nation on 'Top Of The
Pops'
48. Jarvis Cocker waggles his behind at Michael Jackson at the 1996
Brit Awards
49. The Castlemorton rave, 1992
50. The Stooges'
chaotic/disastrous/debauched 1973 tour
51. The release of 'Spinal Tap'
52. 'Elvis' Comeback Special'
53. Lee Perry burns down his Black Ark
studio
54. Oasis threaten to burn down King Tut's Wah Wah Hut if they
don't get to play there
55. Radiohead at Glastonbury, 1997
56. The
release of Primal Scream's 'Screamadelica'
57. Bob Marley & The Wailers'
legendary gig at London Lyceum 
58. The release of Marvin Gaye's 'What's
Going On' 
59. The Beatles play Shea Stadium 
60. Kraftwerk use robots
onstage
61. The Stones' Jagger and Richards are arrested
62. NME invents
the UK singles chart
63. Riots at 'Blackboard Jungle' movie
64. The
Beatles release 'Sgt Pepper's...'
65. Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a
bat 
66. The Jam split
67. Pulp at Glastonbury, 1995
68. The Up In Smoke
tour, featuring Eminem and Dr Dre
69. Charlton Heston's speech to Time
Warner shareholders, following the release of Ice-T's 'Cop Killer'
70.
Jimi Hendrix plays the Monterey Pop Festival
71. Crosby Stills Nash &Young
record 'Ohio'
72. The Stone Roses at Spike Island 
73. Bob Dylan makes
'Subterranean Homesick Blues' 'video' 
74. Eminem appears with a horde of
fake Eminems at the MTV Awards
75. Pink Floyd's Technicolor Dream 24-hour
rave
76. The release of The Specials' 'Ghost Town' single
77. The
kidnapping of Gram Parsons' corpse
78. NME's Shaun Ryder On E cover
79.
The first Glastonbury festival
80. Police and travellers trade blows at
the Battle Of The Beanfield
81. Link Wray loses a lung and invents punk!
82. Dexys Midnight Runners kidnap their own mastertapes
83. The formation
of Led Zeppelin
84. Jim Morrison arrested for indecent exposure
85. Sid
Vicious performing 'My Way'
86. MC5 swear and get dropped
87. Roky
Erickson of the 13th Floor Elevators invents psychedelia and loses his mind
88. Brian Wilson loses his marbles
89. The release of Lou Reed's 'Metal
Machine Music' LP
90. The 'Bohemian Rhapsody' bit in 'Wayne's World'
91.
Belle And Sebastian win a Brit award
92. The unveiling of George Clinton's
Mothership
93. The Woodstock '99 riot
94. My Bloody Valentine almost
bankrupt Creation
95. The Verve's video for 'Bitter Sweet Symphony'
96.
Neil Young sued for not sounding like Neil Young
97. Keith Richards' "Who
the fuck is Mick Jagger?" T-shirt
98. John Fogerty sued for sounding like
Creedence Clearwater Revival
99. The existence of two Fleetwood Macs
during the early '70s
100. George Jones' lawnmower
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