When the Classic Rock station started listing Billy Joel as “Classic Rock”, I knew it was in trouble.
I always wonder about who are considered rock singers. Are the Beatles considered rock? What about the Rolling Stones?
And how is rock defined? I hear terms like hard rock, acid rock, punk rock, hip hop, but as a causal listener to whatever is on the car radio, I don’t know what those terms mean. Yet some people clearly make distinctions between rock and roll, and just rock.
On the flip side, I knew I was old when I was sitting in my doctor’s office and an instrumental version of the Stones’ “Street Fighting Man” was piped in through the speakers.