Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars . Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage , psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard rock music was produced by the Kinks , the Who , the Rolling Stones , Cream , Vanilla Fudge , and the Jimi Hendrix Experience . In the late 1960s, bands such as Blue Cheer , the Jeff Beck Group , Iron Butterfly , Led Zeppelin , Golden Earring , Steppenwolf , Grand Funk , Free , and Deep Purple also produced hard rock.
132-583: Divlje Jagode ( lit. ' Wild Strawberries ' ) is a hard rock and heavy metal band, originally formed in 1977 in Sarajevo , SR Bosnia and Herzegovina , SFR Yugoslavia , and since their 1994 reunion based in Croatia . Led by guitarist Sead "Zele" Lipovača , Divlje Jagode are considered one of the most popular and most influential acts of the Yugoslav hard rock and heavy metal scenes. The band
264-535: A backbeat on snare, sometimes using cymbals for emphasis. The bass guitar works in conjunction with the drums, occasionally playing riffs, but usually providing a backing for the rhythm and lead guitars. Vocals are often growling, raspy, or involve screaming or wailing, sometimes in a high range, or even falsetto voice. In the late-1960s, the term heavy metal was used interchangeably with hard rock, but gradually began to be used to describe music played with even more volume and intensity. While hard rock maintained
396-511: A Grip (1993), which produced four hit singles and became the band's best-selling album worldwide (going on to sell over 10 million copies), and Nine Lives (1997). In 1998, Aerosmith released the hit " I Don't Want to Miss a Thing ". AC/DC produced the double platinum Ballbreaker (1995). Bon Jovi appealed to their hard rock audience with songs such as " Keep the Faith " (1992), but also achieved success in adult contemporary radio, with
528-531: A Small Garden ), after a verse from the song "Divlje jagode". The limited edition of 200 copies of the book contained a DVD with photographs, press archive and a recording of the band's 1988 concert, originally made as a bootleg . In 2022, the band released the first live album in their career, Live in Beograd , with the recording of their concert held in Belgrade's Trade Union Hall on 8 October 2022. In 2024,
660-402: A bluesy rock and roll identity, including some swing in the back beat and riffs that tended to outline chord progressions in their hooks, heavy metal's riffs often functioned as stand-alone melodies and had no swing in them. In the 1980s, heavy metal developed a number of subgenres, often termed extreme metal , some of which were influenced by hardcore punk , and which further differentiated
792-583: A cover of Divlje Jagode song "Let na drugi svijet", entitled "To Another World". On their performance at the 2019 Exit festival in Novi Sad , Serbia, the band performed the song with original lyrics. In 2023, Italian heavy metal band TYTUS recorded a cover of "Motori" for their EP Roaming in Despair . In 2000, the song "Jedina moja" was polled No.89 on Rock Express Top 100 Yugoslav Rock Songs of All Times list. Hard rock The genre developed into
924-509: A decision to move to Sarajevo-based record label Diskoton , which would release all the band's albums before their breakup in 1990. In the Belgrade studio Druga maca ( Another Kitty ), owned by producer Enco Lesić, the band recorded their second studio album entitled Stakleni hotel ( Glass Hotel ), which marked their complete shift towards heavy metal . The album was co-produced by Lipovača and Lesić. The songs were composed by Lipovača, and
1056-621: A five-year contract deal in the United States . However, the project was never realized, Stipišić moving to the German band V2, soon after starting a successful solo career, and Divlje Jagode disbanded. Following the outbreak of Yugoslav Wars in 1991, Lipovača lived in Germany, London and Zagreb. During this period he recorded his first solo album Magic Love with former Divlje Jagode members Zlatan Čehić and Nasko Budimlić, while on vocals
1188-468: A former member of Armija B ( Army B ). This lineup started recording their next album, produced by Peter Hinton, known for his collaboration with the British heavy metal band Saxon . The album, entitled Konji ( Horses ), was released at the beginning of 1988. It brought several well-received songs, including the title track, ballad "Zauvijek tvoj" ("Forever Yours"), written by Vojičić, and a new version of
1320-504: A guitar-playing technique of two-handed hammer-ons and pull-offs called tapping , showcased on the song " Eruption " from the album Van Halen , which was highly influential in re-establishing hard rock as a popular genre after the punk and disco explosion, while also redefining and elevating the role of electric guitar. In the 1970s and 80s, several European bands, including the German Michael Schenker Group ,
1452-590: A major form of popular music in the 1970s, with the Who, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple being joined by Black Sabbath , Aerosmith , Kiss , Queen , AC/DC , Thin Lizzy and Van Halen . During the 1980s, some hard rock bands moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop rock . Established bands made a comeback in the mid-1980s and hard rock reached a commercial peak in the 1980s with glam metal bands such as Mötley Crüe , Bon Jovi and Def Leppard as well as
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#17327878932171584-463: A more diverse group of people and punk seemed to take over the rebellious role that hard rock once held. Early punk bands like the Ramones explicitly rebelled against the drum solos and extended guitar solos that characterised stadium rock, with almost all of their songs clocking in under three minutes with no guitar solos. However, new rock acts continued to emerge and record sales remained high into
1716-497: A pop sensitivity selling 15 million copies in the US while becoming the first hard rock album to spawn three hit singles. The album has been credited with widening the audiences for the genre, particularly by appealing to women as well as the traditional male dominated audience, and opening the door to MTV and commercial success for other bands at the end of the decade. The anthemic The Final Countdown (1986) by Swedish group Europe
1848-492: A return to their hard rock sound. The term "retro-metal" has been applied to such bands as Texas based the Sword , California's High on Fire , Sweden's Witchcraft and Australia's Wolfmother . Wolfmother's self-titled 2005 debut album combined elements of the sounds of Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. Fellow Australians Airbourne 's début album Runnin' Wild (2007) followed in the hard riffing tradition of AC/DC. England's
1980-418: A series of hit singles. In the last years of the decade, the most notable successes were New Jersey (1988) by Bon Jovi, OU812 (1988) by Van Halen , Open Up and Say... Ahh! (1988) by Poison , Pump (1989) by Aerosmith, and Mötley Crüe's most commercially successful album Dr. Feelgood (1989). New Jersey spawned five hit singles. In 1988 from 25 June to 5 November, the number one spot on
2112-589: A solo career that resulted in four successive multi-platinum albums between Ted Nugent (1975) and his best selling Double Live Gonzo! (1978). " Goodbye to Love " by the Carpenters , a duo whose music was otherwise almost exclusively soft rock, drew hate mail for its incorporation of a hard rock fuzz guitar solo by Tony Peluso . From outside the United Kingdom and the United States,
2244-512: A solo career with Blizzard of Ozz (1980), featuring American guitarist Randy Rhoads . Some bands, such as Queen , moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop rock , while others, including Rush with Moving Pictures (1981), began to return to a hard rock sound. The creation of thrash metal , which mixed heavy metal with elements of hardcore punk from about 1982, particularly by Metallica , Anthrax , Megadeth and Slayer , helped to create extreme metal and further remove
2376-483: A sound that sharply contrasted mainstream hard rock, several, including Pearl Jam , Alice in Chains , Mother Love Bone and Soundgarden , were more strongly influenced by 1970s and 1980s rock and metal, while Stone Temple Pilots managed to turn alternative rock into a form of stadium rock. However, all grunge bands shunned the macho, anthemic and fashion-focused aesthetics particularly associated with glam metal. In
2508-459: A supergroup that brought together Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme and Led Zeppelin bass player John Paul Jones attracted attention as a live act and released a self-titled debut album that was a hit the US and UK. BOOM Festival BOOM Festival was a rock music festival held annually throughout SFR Yugoslavia between 1971 and 1978. The festival
2640-569: Is the last 1:10 of " I Feel Much Better " by the Small Faces , recorded in May of 1967. The first 2:46 is typical psychedelic fare of the time, but then the song suddenly changes into a hard bass-and-guitar power chord with Steve Marriott 's rhythm guitar and gut bucket singing, equal to the heaviest rock to be heard later. The Beatles began producing songs in the new hard rock style beginning with their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as
2772-627: The Allied Forces album in 1981. The Irish band Thin Lizzy , which had formed in the late 1960s, made their most substantial commercial breakthrough in 1976 with the hard rock album Jailbreak and their worldwide hit " The Boys Are Back in Town ". Their style, consisting of two duelling guitarists often playing leads in harmony, proved itself to be a large influence on later bands. They reached their commercial, and arguably their artistic peak with Black Rose: A Rock Legend (1979). The arrival of
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#17327878932172904-551: The Glasgow band Zero Zero, but eventually, in the summer of 1987, Divlje Jagode's new vocalist became Mladen Vojičić "Tifa" , the former Bijelo Dugme singer whom Islamović had replaced. The lineup was complete with the arrival of drummer Edin Šehović, who had previously performed abroad in the bands Country Carma, Bandoleros, and Tusk, and keyboardist Vladimir Podany, a graduate from the Sarajevo Music Academy and
3036-565: The Netherlands . As the lineup which recorded the album had already disbanded by the time of its release, Wild Strawberries was not followed by promotional performances or much promotion from the record label. During the hiatus following the departure of Islamović, the band released the compilation album Najbolje ( The Best ). At the beginning of 1987, Lipovača, supported by Zlatan Čehić, decided to put together another lineup. Initially, Lipovača negotiated with Stevie, vocalist and leader of
3168-529: The Scorpions from Germany marked the geographical expansion of the subgenre. Australian-formed AC/DC , with a stripped back, riff heavy and abrasive style that also appealed to the punk generation, began to gain international attention from 1976, culminating in the release of their multi-platinum albums Let There Be Rock (1977) and Highway to Hell (1979). Also influenced by a punk ethos were heavy metal bands like Motörhead , while Judas Priest abandoned
3300-404: The disco group Mirzino Jato . The band continued their activity in 1980, in the new lineup featuring Lipovača, Janković and two new members, bass guitarist Alen Islamović , formerly of the band BAG, and drummer Nasir "Nasko" Budimlić, formerly of the band Problemi sa Miljacke ( Problems from Miljacka ). Unsatisfied by their previous record label's promotion of their first album, Lipovača made
3432-486: The "White Album") and, with the track " Helter Skelter ", attempted to create a greater level of noise than the Who. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic has referred to the "proto-metal roar" of "Helter Skelter", while Ian MacDonald called it "ridiculous, with McCartney shrieking weedily against a massively tape-echoed backdrop of out-of-tune thrashing". Groups that emerged from the American psychedelic scene about
3564-466: The 1950s, evident in the work of Memphis blues guitarists such as Joe Hill Louis , Willie Johnson , and particularly Pat Hare , who captured a "grittier, nastier, more ferocious electric guitar sound" on records such as James Cotton 's " Cotton Crop Blues " (1954). Other antecedents include Link Wray 's instrumental " Rumble " in 1958, and the surf rock instrumentals of Dick Dale , such as " Let's Go Trippin' " (1961) and " Misirlou " (1962). In
3696-480: The 1960s, American and British blues and rock bands began to modify rock and roll by adding harder sounds, heavier guitar riffs, bombastic drumming, and louder vocals, from electric blues . Early forms of hard rock can be heard in the work of Chicago blues musicians Elmore James , Muddy Waters , and Howlin' Wolf , the Kingsmen 's version of " Louie Louie " (1963) which made it a garage rock standard, and
3828-653: The 1974 edition of the BOOM Festival , held in Tivoli Hall in Ljubljana , with the live version of their song "Stara kuća je prazna" ("The Old House Is Empty") appearing on the live album Boom Pop Festival Ljubljana '74 , recorded at the event. In 1977, Zenit former members Lipovača, vocalist Anto "Toni" Janković and bass guitarist Nihad Jusufhodžić formed the band Divlje Jagode in Sarajevo. The first lineup of
3960-544: The 1980s. 1977 saw the début and rise to stardom of Foreigner , who went on to release several platinum albums through to the mid-1980s. Midwestern groups like Kansas , REO Speedwagon and Styx helped further cement heavy rock in the Midwest as a form of stadium rock. In 1978, Van Halen emerged from the Los Angeles music scene with a sound based around the skills of lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen . He popularised
4092-475: The 1981 Belgrade Rock Festival and on the fund-raising concerts for the victims of an earthquake in Bosanska Krajina . In 1982, Janković parted with the rest of the band amicably, starting a career as a solo artist, releasing his first solo album Za tvoju ljubav ( For Your Love ) in 1984. Alen Islamović, in addition to playing bass guitar, took over the vocal duties. The band's third studio album and
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4224-408: The 1981 album Stakleni hotel . After the release of their second album, Janković left the band, parting ways with the rest of the group amicably, and would be seen on several occasions in the following years as guest musician on the band's concerts and albums. With bass guitarist Alen Islamović taking over the vocal duties and the albums Motori (1982), Čarobnjaci (1983) and Vatra (1985),
4356-431: The 2000s with considerable commercial success, abandoning most of the angst and anger of the original movement for more conventional anthems, narratives and romantic songs. They were followed in this vein by new acts including Shinedown and Seether . Acts with more conventional hard rock sounds included Andrew W.K. , Beautiful Creatures and Buckcherry , whose breakthrough album 15 (2006) went platinum and spawned
4488-454: The 2000s, only a few hard rock bands from the 1970s and 1980s managed to sustain highly successful recording careers. Hard rock is a form of loud, aggressive rock music. The electric guitar is often emphasised, used with distortion and other effects, both as a rhythm instrument using repetitive riffs with a varying degree of complexity, and as a solo lead instrument. Drumming characteristically focuses on driving rhythms, strong bass drum and
4620-461: The Bands ), in which Berak participated with his band Livio Berak Trio, reaching the finals. While on vocals, Berak also serves as a band's second guitar player. The album also featured the new bass guitarist András Ispán and the new keyboardist Damjan Deurić. Guest appearances on the album included the band's former vocalists Žanil Tataj and Marko Osmanović, singer Vlatka Pokos (on backing vocals), and
4752-547: The Billboard 200 album chart was held by a hard rock album for 18 out of 20 consecutive weeks; the albums were OU812 , Hysteria , Appetite for Destruction , and New Jersey . A final wave of glam rock bands arrived in the late 1980s, and experienced success with multi-platinum albums and hit singles from 1989 until the early 1990s, among them Extreme , Warrant Slaughter and FireHouse . Skid Row also released their eponymous début (1989), but they were to be one of
4884-492: The Black Crowes released their debut album, Shake Your Money Maker (1990), which contained a bluesy classic rock sound and sold five million copies. In 1992, Def Leppard followed up 1987's Hysteria with Adrenalize , which went multi-platinum, spawned four Top 40 singles and held the number one spot on the US album chart for five weeks. While these few hard rock bands managed to maintain success and popularity in
5016-517: The Canadian trio Rush released three distinctively hard rock albums in 1974–75 ( Rush , Fly by Night and Caress of Steel ) before moving toward a more progressive sound with the 1976 album 2112 . Also from Canada, Triumph released their debut album in 1976 before their breakthrough came in the form of the Just a Game album in 1979. Later, the band's streak of popularity continued with
5148-536: The Darkness ' Permission to Land (2003), described as an "eerily realistic simulation of '80s metal and '70s glam", went quintuple platinum in the UK. The follow-up, One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back (2005) was also a hit, but the band broke up in 2006, becoming active again in 2011. Los Angeles band Steel Panther managed to gain a following by sending up 80s glam metal. A more serious attempt to revive glam metal
5280-642: The Finale Top 1000 festival at Stuttgart Hippodrome and recorded the band's ninth studio album Sto vjekova ( Hundred Centuries ). The album songs were composed by Lipovača, and the songs lyrics were written by himself, Anto Janković, Dino Merlin and Zlatan Stipišić. Sto vjekova was recorded in Stuttgart, Germany, co-produced by Lipovača and German producer Denyken and released by German record label Nimfa Sound in 1996. The album featured guest appearances by Emir Cenić (vocals) and Toni Lasan (keyboards). After
5412-719: The Jeff Beck Group. Dave Davies of the Kinks, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, Pete Townshend of the Who, Hendrix, Clapton and Beck all pioneered the use of new guitar effects like phasing , feedback and distortion . The Doors ' debut album , released in 1967, included songs like " Soul Kitchen ", "Twentieth Century Fox", and a cover version of " Back Door Man ", which were what music journalist Stephen Davis characterized as "enough hard rock tracks". One track that stands out as especially heavy for its time
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5544-680: The Rolling Stones further developed their hard rock sound with Exile on Main St. (1972). Initially receiving mixed reviews, according to critic Steve Erlewine it is now "generally regarded as the Rolling Stones' finest album". They continued to pursue the riff-heavy sound on albums including It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (1974) and Black and Blue (1976). Led Zeppelin began to mix elements of world and folk music into their hard rock from Led Zeppelin III (1970) and Led Zeppelin IV (1971). The latter included
5676-625: The Runaways débuted with their self-titled album . While Heart had a more folk-oriented hard rock sound, the Runaways leaned more towards a mix of punk-influenced music and hard rock. The Amboy Dukes , having emerged from the Detroit garage rock scene and most famous for their psychedelic hit "Journey to the Center of the Mind" (1968), were dissolved by their guitarist Ted Nugent , who embarked on
5808-558: The Swedish band Europe , and Dutch bands Golden Earring , Vandenberg and Vengeance experienced success in Europe and internationally. The opening years of the 1980s saw a number of changes in personnel and direction of established hard rock acts, including the deaths of Bon Scott , the lead singer of AC/DC, and John Bonham , drummer with Led Zeppelin. Whereas Zeppelin broke up almost immediately afterwards, AC/DC pressed on, recording
5940-610: The UK, Oasis were unusual among the Britpop bands of the mid-1990s in incorporating a hard rock sound. Welsh band Manic Street Preachers emerged in 1991 with a sound Stephen Thomas Erlewine proclaimed to be "crunching hard-rock". By 1996, the band enjoyed remarkable vogue throughout much of the world, but were commercially unsuccessful in the U.S. In the new commercial climate glam metal bands like Europe, Ratt, White Lion and Cinderella broke up, Whitesnake went on hiatus in 1991, and while many of these bands would re-unite again in
6072-576: The United States, shock-rock pioneer Alice Cooper achieved mainstream success with School's Out (1972), and followed up with Billion Dollar Babies , which reached the No. 1 position on the Billboard 200 albums chart in 1973. Also in 1973, blues rockers ZZ Top released their classic album Tres Hombres and Aerosmith produced their eponymous début , as did Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd and proto-punk outfit New York Dolls , demonstrating
6204-558: The United States. Established acts benefited from the new commercial climate, with Whitesnake 's self-titled album (1987) selling over 17 million copies, outperforming anything in Coverdale's or Deep Purple's catalogue before or since. It featured the rock anthem " Here I Go Again '87" as one of 4 UK top 20 singles. The follow-up Slip of the Tongue (1989) went platinum, but according to critics Steve Erlwine and Greg Prato, "it
6336-476: The Water". The keyboards on the album recording were played by British musician Don Airey , who was previously a member of Colosseum II , Rainbow and Ozzy Osbourne 's backing band. According to Yugoslav press from that period, Lipovača was at the time offered to join the British hard rock band Whitesnake ; he stated in a 2020 interview that it was Don Airey who suggested this to Whitesnake management. Believing in
6468-728: The Who (delayed in 2002 by the death of bassist John Entwistle until 2006) and Black Sabbath (with Osbourne 1997–2006 and Dio 2006–2010) and even a one-off performance by Led Zeppelin (2007), renewing the interest in previous eras. Additionally, hard rock supergroups, such as Audioslave (with former members of Rage Against the Machine and Soundgarden) and Velvet Revolver (with former members of Guns N' Roses, punk band Wasted Youth and Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland ), emerged and experienced some success. However, these bands were short-lived, ending in 2007 and 2008, respectively. The long-awaited Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy
6600-513: The album Back in Black (1980) with their new lead singer, Brian Johnson . It became the fifth-highest-selling album of all time in the US and the second-highest-selling album in the world. Black Sabbath had split with original singer Ozzy Osbourne in 1979 and replaced him with Ronnie James Dio , formerly of Rainbow, giving the band a new sound and a period of creativity and popularity beginning with Heaven and Hell (1980). Osbourne embarked on
6732-648: The album Čarobnjaci the band signed a five-year contract with British record company Logo Records , based in London . Prior to the contract signing, Divlje Jagode held a large concert in Zagreb. In attendance, alongside people from Logo Records, was journalist Xavier Russel of the British magazine Kerrang! . In his review of the concert he compared Divlje Jagode's sound to the sound of Black Sabbath , Y&T and Saxon , with occasional addition of Judas Priest -influenced riffs , and noted that Divlje Jagode's ballads were
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#17327878932176864-523: The album included vocalists Tina Rupčić and Mirta Mandić, and the band's old collaborator Samir Šestan. For the promotional tour, Budimlić was replaced by previously hired drummer Tomas Balaž (formerly of Anestesia and Majke ). The recording of the band's concert held on 27 April 2004 in Zagreb's Dom Sportova was, alongside music videos, released on the DVD Divlje Jagode by Serbian record label One Records . In 2004, Croatia Records released
6996-450: The album release, Karić left the band and was replaced by Dejan Orešković, formerly of the band Hard Time. Drummer Tomas Balaž was hired as a temporary replacement for Budimlić on several occasions. After series of concerts across Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia , the band went on a break. By the end of 1999, after a series of concerts across Europe, Žanil Tataj left the band. After Tataj's deperture, Divlje Jagode regrouped in
7128-465: The balad "Krivo je more" ("The Sea Is to Blame"), and a new version of "Jedina moja" receiving large airplay. After the album was released, the band went on hiatus, as part of the members had to serve their mandatory stints in the Yugoslav People's Army . Ismailovski moved to pop rock band Srebrna Krila , and Lipovača, together with lyricist Marina Tucaković , became the spiritus movens for
7260-479: The ballads "Nasmiješi se" ("Smile") and "Ne želiš kraj" ("You Don't Want the End"), the latter featuring lyrics written by Janković before he left the band. On a part of the follow up tour, Janković made guest appearances on the band's concerts. Following Motori and the subseqent tour, Divlje Jagode was considered as one of the most popular bands in the country. The band's third album, entitled Čarobnjaci ( Wizards ),
7392-489: The band achieved large mainstream popularity in Yugoslavia, which provided them with a contract with a British record label and an opportunity to record an album for the international market. In 1986, the group moved to London , England , where they started working on their international career under the name Wild Strawberries , adopting a more glam metal image and recording an English language album. However, doubting
7524-496: The band at some point during their career joined them on stage, including former vocalists Anto Janković, Mladen Vojičić, Žanil Tataj, Pero Galiić and Marko Osmanović. In 2020, the band released their latest studio album Jukebox . Alongside Berak, the album featured Anto Janković on vocals, once again as an official member of the band. The album was co-produced by Lipovača and Deurić and featured new members – bass guitarist Damjan Milenković and drummer Emir Kranjčić. The album featured
7656-599: The band released the box set Collection , featuring all the studio albums by the band with redesigned album covers, Lipovača's solo album Magic Love , and the single "Piramida" on the bonus disc. In the spring of 2007, they released another single, a new version of their old song "Zvijezda sjevera" ("Star of the North"), sung by Čehić. In July 2007, together with Galić's former band Opća Opasnost, they play as an opening act at Whitesnake concert in Osijek . Soon after, Galić left
7788-467: The band released their latest studio album, Prati moje stare tragove ( Follow My Old Footprints ). The album was followed by promotional tour across former Yugoslav republics. In 2017, Croatian band Ausswinkl Muzikanti recorded a folk cover of "Ne želiš kraj", with guest appearance by Anto Janković (who wrote the lyrics for the song, originally recorded by Divlje Jagode in 1982, with Islamović on vocals). In 2019, Swedish heavy metal band Enforcer recorded
7920-589: The band released two six-piece box sets, entitled Original Album Collection Vol.1 and Original Album Collection Vol.2 , featuring all the studio albums by the band and Lipovača's Magic Love . On 10 June of the same year, the band performed as the opening act for Scorpions on their concert in Belgrade Arena . In the summer of 2019, the band marked 40 years of recording activity with a live performance in BHRT studio in Sarajevo. Many musicians who were members of
8052-438: The band the next year, vocalist David Coverdale formed Whitesnake . 1970 saw the Who release Live at Leeds , often seen as the archetypal hard rock live album, and the following year they released their highly acclaimed album Who's Next , which mixed heavy rock with extensive use of synthesizers. Subsequent albums, including Quadrophenia (1973), built on this sound before Who Are You (1978), their last album before
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#17327878932178184-533: The band to rejoin Opća Opasnost, and was replaced by Marko Osmanović, formerly of the band Cota G4 from Daruvar . He would remain with the band until the beginning of 2013. During next several years, Divlje Jagode mainly toured across the region, playing local festivals and concerts, also having several international bouts. Within this time, the band did not hold a permanent lineup, with many former members joining on various occasions at live performances, while work on
8316-492: The band's original singer Anto Janković on lead vocals. The album was followed by concerts across Germany and Croatia and in other European countries. In mid-1995, Čehić left the group. The band continued their career in the new lineup, consisting of Lipovača, Budimlić, Žanil Tataj (vocals) and Sanin Karić (bass guitar, formerly a member of Teška Industrija and a touring member of Bijelo Dugme ). The new lineup performed in 1995 on
8448-412: The band's version of Ludwig van Beethoven 's composition " Für Elise ", as well as a new version of "Zauvjek tvoj", featuring Mladen Vojičić on vocals. The album also featured guest appearances by two other former members, Žanil Tataj and Sanin Karić. During the same year, the band's biography was published, authored by Stjepan Juras and entitled U malom vrtu raste divlji plod ( A Wild Fruit Is Growing in
8580-456: The band. For the rest of the tour, Čehić took over the vocals, and the drums were played by former Bijelo Dugme member Dragan "Điđi" Jankelić . During the 1989 tour, they were joined by their original vocalist Anto Janković, who performed mostly songs from his period in the band. By the end of the year the former Osmi Putnik frontman Zlatan Stipišić "Džibo" became the band's new vocalist. This lineup recorded demos, owing to which Lipovača signed
8712-634: The best received songs on the concert. Following the contract signing, the group moved to London, where they changed their name to Wild Strawberries, adopting a more glam metal image, and started working on their first album for the international market. The album was recorded in Matrix studio in London and produced by Keith Woolvin. The band re-recorded eight of their old songs with new, English language lyrics written by Yugoslav singer-songwriter Aleksander Mežek , alongside two new songs, "Wild Boys" and "Fire on
8844-416: The culmination of the British adaptation of blues into rock and a direct precursor of Led Zeppelin's style of hard rock and heavy metal. Jimi Hendrix produced a form of blues-influenced psychedelic rock, which combined elements of jazz , blues and rock and roll. From 1967, Jeff Beck brought lead guitar to new heights of technical virtuosity and moved blues rock in the direction of heavy rock with his band,
8976-444: The death of pioneering rock drummer Keith Moon later that year. Emerging British acts included Free , who released their signature song " All Right Now " (1970), which has received extensive radio airplay in both the UK and US. After the breakup of the band in 1973, vocalist Paul Rodgers joined supergroup Bad Company , whose eponymous first album (1974) was an international hit. UK band Foghat also found success throughout
9108-448: The decade with their boogie and blues style. The mixture of hard rock and progressive rock, evident in the works of Deep Purple, was pursued more directly by bands like Uriah Heep and Argent . Scottish band Nazareth released their self-titled début album in 1971, producing a blend of hard rock and pop that would culminate in their best selling, Hair of the Dog (1975), which contained
9240-454: The diverse directions being pursued in the genre. Montrose , including the instrumental talent of Ronnie Montrose and vocals of Sammy Hagar released their first album in 1973. Former bubblegum-pop family act the Osmonds recorded two hard rock albums in 1972 and had their breakthrough in the UK with the hard rock hit " Crazy Horses ." Kiss built on the theatrics of Alice Cooper and
9372-510: The double compilation album The Very Best Of , which included a new version of the hit ballad "Krivo je more". In 2005, prior to the band's United States tour, Pero Galić left the band, and was replaced by their original vocalist Ante Janković, who became a permanent member of the band for the first time since 1982. During the tour, they played a concert in Chicago together with Croatian and Yugoslav rock band Parni Valjak . The United States tour
9504-479: The early part of the decade, alternative forms of hard rock achieved mainstream success in the form of grunge in the US and Britpop in the UK. This was particularly evident after the success of Nirvana 's Nevermind (1991), which combined elements of hardcore punk and heavy metal into a "dirty" sound that made use of heavy guitar distortion, fuzz and feedback, along with darker lyrical themes than their "hair band" predecessors. Although most grunge bands had
9636-493: The elements introduced by Black Sabbath with their breakthrough live gold album On Your Feet or on Your Knees (1975), followed by their first platinum album, Agents of Fortune (1976), containing the hit single " (Don't Fear) The Reaper ". Journey released their eponymous debut in 1975 and the next year Boston released their highly successful début album . In the same year, hard rock bands featuring women saw commercial success as Heart released Dreamboat Annie and
9768-415: The first lyrical reference to heavy metal and helped popularise the style when it was used in the film Easy Rider (1969). Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1968), with its 17-minute-long title track , using organs and with a lengthy drum solo, also prefigured later elements of the sound. By the end of the decade a distinct genre of hard rock was emerging with bands like Led Zeppelin , who mixed
9900-553: The first with Islamović on vocals was recorded in Music Park Studios in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , Germany , and produced by Theo Werdin. The songs were composed by Lipovača, and the lyrics were written by Islamović. The album, entitled Motori ( Motorcycles ), was released in 1982, the title track becoming a nationwide hit. Other well-received songs included "Šejla", "Zagrizi rokenrol" ("Bite On Rock 'n' Roll") and
10032-407: The group also featured keyboardist Mustafa "Muc" Ismailovski (formerly of the band Grešnici ) and drummer Adonis Dokuzović (formerly of Novi Akordi and Renesansa). The group soon managed to sign a contract with Yugoslavia's biggest record label Jugoton . The members initially wanted to name the band Dobro Ime ( A Good Name ), but the idea was ridiculed by Jugoton editors. Eventually, the members chose
10164-419: The hit ballads " Bed of Roses " (1993) and " Always " (1994). Bon Jovi's 1995 album These Days was a bigger hit in Europe than it was in the United States, spawning four hit singles in the UK. Metallica's Load (1996) and ReLoad (1997) each sold in excess of 4 million copies in the US and saw the band develop a more melodic and blues rock sound. As the initial impetus of grunge bands faltered in
10296-408: The international success of his own band, Lipovača did not proceed with the offer and decided focus on his current band's career. In February 1986, Wild Strawberries released the single "Shayla" to announce their upcoming album, and performed in a number of English clubs, including a concert in London's Marquee Club , held on 19 February. The band's attempt to make a breakthrough on the British marked
10428-430: The last major bands that emerged in the glam rock era. Hard rock entered the 1990s as one of the dominant forms of commercial music. The multi-platinum releases of AC/DC's The Razors Edge (1990), Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II (both in 1991), Ozzy Osbourne's No More Tears (1991), and Van Halen's For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (1991) showcased this popularity. Additionally,
10560-471: The late 1990s or early 2000s, they never reached the commercial success they saw in the 1980s or early 1990s. Other bands such as Mötley Crüe and Poison saw personnel changes which impacted those bands' commercial viability during the decade. In 1995 Van Halen released Balance , a multi-platinum seller that would be the band's last with Sammy Hagar on vocals. In 1996 David Lee Roth returned briefly and his replacement, former Extreme singer Gary Cherone ,
10692-548: The latter producing six hit singles (a record for a hard rock act). Guns N' Roses released the best-selling début of all time, Appetite for Destruction (1987). With a "grittier" and "rawer" sound than most glam metal, it produced three hits, including " Sweet Child O' Mine ". Some of the glam rock bands that formed in the mid-1980s, such as White Lion and Cinderella experienced their biggest success during this period with their respective albums Pride (1987) and Long Cold Winter (1988) both going multi-platinum and launching
10824-427: The latter recorded with vocalist Žanil "Žak" Tataj , presented the band with a slightly softer, more ballad-oriented sound. With the 2003 album Od neba do neba , recorded with vocalist Pero Galić, the band reestablished their popularity in the region of former Yugoslavia. Since 2013, the band has performed with vocalist Livio Berak, Divlje Jagode original vocalist Anto Janković becoming an official member once more and
10956-530: The look of the New York Dolls to produce a unique band persona, achieving their commercial breakthrough with the double live album Alive! in 1975 and helping to take hard rock into the stadium rock era. In the mid-1970s Aerosmith achieved their commercial and artistic breakthrough with Toys in the Attic (1975) and Rocks (1976), Blue Öyster Cult , formed in the late 1960s, picked up on some of
11088-554: The lyrics were written by Islamović, Marina Tucaković , Goran Petranović (vocalist for the band Elvis J. Kurtović & His Meteors ) and Šefket Nakić. The album brought several hit songs – hippie -inspired "Autostop" ("Hitchhiking") and the ballads "Dodirni me, skloni bol" ("Touch Me, Remove the Pain") and "Potraži put" ("Look for the Road"). On the tour that followed the album release, Lipovača appeared in schoolboy stage outfit inspired by
11220-509: The mid-1970s and the Zagreb -based band Zenit ( Zenith ), featuring guitarist Sead "Zele" Lipovača . Lipovača was born in Bihać and, after graduating from high school, moved to Zagreb for his studies of external trade . In Zagreb he performed with the bands Biseri ( The Pearls ) and Selekcija ( Selection ), before joining Zenit. Zenit reached the peak of their career with their performance at
11352-501: The middle years of the decade, post-grunge bands emerged. They emulated the attitudes and music of grunge, particularly thick, distorted guitars, but with a more radio-friendly commercially oriented sound that drew more directly on traditional hard rock. Among the most successful acts were the Foo Fighters , Candlebox , Live , Collective Soul , Australia's Silverchair and England's Bush , who all cemented post-grunge as one of
11484-476: The most commercially viable subgenres by the late 1990s. Similarly, some post-Britpop bands that followed in the wake of Oasis, including Feeder and Stereophonics , adopted a hard rock or "pop-metal" sound. A few hard rock bands from the 1970s and 1980s managed to sustain highly successful recording careers. Bon Jovi were still able to achieve a commercial hit with " It's My Life " from their double platinum-certified album Crush (2000). and AC/DC released
11616-593: The music of early rock bands with a more hard-edged form of blues rock and acid rock on their first two albums Led Zeppelin (1969) and Led Zeppelin II (1969), and Deep Purple , who began as a progressive rock group in 1968 but achieved their commercial breakthrough with their fourth and distinctively heavier album, Deep Purple in Rock (1970). Also significant was Black Sabbath's Paranoid (1970), which combined guitar riffs with dissonance and more explicit references to
11748-516: The name Divlje Jagode ( Wild Stawberries ), after the 1957 film by Ingmar Bergman . The band achieved large popularity with their first singles – hard rock ballads "Jedina moja" ("My Only One") and "Patkica" ("Duckling"), and a cover of Bosnian traditional song " Moj dilbere " ("My Sweetheart"). In 1978, Divlje Jagode released their debut self-titled album . The album featured Led Zeppelin -, Deep Purple - and Black Sabbath -influenced hard rock sound, with "Želim da te imam" ("I Want to Have You"),
11880-496: The new lineup. It consisted of Lipovača, drummer Nasko Budimlić, bass guitarist Dejan Oreškovič, and vocalist Pero Galić, who had previously performed as the frontman of the Croatian hard rock band Opća Opasnost . The new lineup recorded the album Od neba do neba ( From Sky to Sky ), released in 2003 through Croatia Records . The album was recorded and mixed during three years period, in several different recording studios across
12012-446: The next studio album was still in progress. The compilation album The Love Collection featured, alongside band's old love songs, the new song "Ne, nisam ja" ("No, It's Not Me"). The compilation was followed by the 2013 studio album Biodinamička ljubav ( Biodynamic Love ). The album was recorded with the band's new vocalist, Livio Berak. Berak was first spotted by Lipovača in 2010, during regional talent rock show Rat bendova ( War of
12144-406: The occult and elements of Gothic horror . All three of these bands have been seen as pivotal in the development of heavy metal, but where metal further accentuated the intensity of the music, with bands like Judas Priest following Sabbath's lead into territory that was often "darker and more menacing", hard rock tended to continue to remain the more exuberant, good-time music. In the early 1970s
12276-511: The platinum-certified Stiff Upper Lip (2000) Aerosmith released a platinum album, Just Push Play (2001), which saw the band foray further into pop with the hit " Jaded ", and a blues cover album, Honkin' on Bobo . Heart achieved their first hit album since the early 90s with Red Velvet Car in 2010, becoming the first female-led hard rock band to earn Top 10 albums spanning five decades. There were reunions and subsequent tours from Van Halen (with Hagar in 2004 and then Roth in 2007),
12408-469: The proto- power ballad " Love Hurts ". Having enjoyed some national success in the early 1970s, Queen , after the release of Sheer Heart Attack (1974) and A Night at the Opera (1975), gained international recognition with a sound that used layered vocals and guitars and mixed hard rock with heavy metal, progressive rock, and even opera . The latter featured the hit single " Bohemian Rhapsody ". In
12540-419: The rawer sounds of Guns N' Roses which followed with great success in the later part of that decade. Hard rock began losing popularity with the commercial success of R&B, hip-hop , urban pop, grunge and later Britpop in the 1990s. Despite this, many post-grunge bands adopted a hard rock sound and the 2000s saw a renewed interest in established bands, attempts at a revival, and new hard rock bands. In
12672-514: The region and Europe. The album included a new version of "Motori", entitled "Motori 2003", the song "Kap po kap" ("Drop by Drop"), written by Lipovača and originally recorded by Mladen Vojičić "Tifa" in 1995 under the title "Duge kiše јеsenje" ("Long Autumn Rains"), a live version of the band's old ballad "Ne želiš kraj", and a cover of Uriah Heep song " Lady in Black " entitled "Marija". The song "Ne krivi me" ("Don't Blame Me") featured guest appearance by Anto Janković, and other guest appearances on
12804-523: The release of Wild Strawberries album and put an end to the band's efforts of breaking into international market. Following Islamović's departure, Budimlić also left, soon after retiring from rock scene and starting to perform in kafanas with the folk group Jarani ( Friends ). The album, entitled Wild Strawberries , was eventually released in Britain in May 1987, almost a year and a half since its recording, and subsequently in Germany, Italy , Sweden and
12936-583: The release of the 1993 covers album The Spaghetti Incident? Guitarist Slash left in 1996, followed by bassist Duff McKagan in 1997. Axl Rose, the only original member, worked with a constantly changing lineup in recording an album that would take over fifteen years to complete. Slash and McKagan eventually rejoined the band in 2016 and went on the Not in this Lifetime... Tour with them. Some established acts continued to enjoy commercial success, such as Aerosmith, with their number one multi-platinum albums: Get
13068-408: The remaining elements of the blues in their music, further differentiating the hard rock and heavy metal styles and helping to create the new wave of British heavy metal which was pursued by bands like Iron Maiden , Saxon , and Venom . With the rise of disco in the US and punk rock in the UK, hard rock's mainstream dominance was rivalled toward the later part of the decade. Disco appealed to
13200-481: The replacement for the vocalist Željko Bebek . Fearing that recently departured Bebek might decide to return to Bijelo Dugme, Islamović turned the offer down. In 1985, the band released their fifth studio album, entitled Vatra ( Fire ). Recording and mixing were done in studios of RTV Sarajevo and Music Park Studios in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe. The album was once again produced by Theo Werdin, who also wrote
13332-433: The same time included Iron Butterfly , MC5 , Blue Cheer and Vanilla Fudge . San Francisco band Blue Cheer released a crude and distorted cover of Eddie Cochran 's classic " Summertime Blues ", from their 1968 debut album Vincebus Eruptum , that outlined much of the later hard rock and heavy metal sound. The same month, Steppenwolf released its self-titled debut album , including " Born to Be Wild ", which contained
13464-443: The second vocalist for the band with the release of the 2020 studio album Jukebox . Divlje Jagode are widely considered to be one of the most popular hard rock and heavy metal bands in the region of former Yugoslavia. Since their founding, the band have released 13 studio albums, a live album and a number of compilation albums, scoring a number of hit songs and selling around 4 million records. The band's beginnings can be tracked to
13596-406: The single " Sorry " (2007). These were joined by bands with hard rock leanings that emerged in the mid-2000s from the garage rock , Southern Rock , or post punk revival , including Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Kings of Leon , and Queens of the Stone Age from the US, Three Days Grace from Canada, Jet from Australia and The Datsuns from New Zealand. In 2009 Them Crooked Vultures ,
13728-500: The singles charts with power ballads, including REO Speedwagon with " Keep on Loving You " (1980) and " Can't Fight This Feeling " (1984), Journey with " Don't Stop Believin' " (1981) and " Open Arms " (1982), Foreigner 's " Waiting for a Girl Like You " (1981) and " I Want to Know What Love Is " (1984), Scorpions ' " Still Loving You " (1984), Heart's " What About Love " (1985) and Boston 's " Amanda " (1986). Bon Jovi 's third album, Slippery When Wet (1986), mixed hard rock with
13860-404: The song "Divlje jagode", originally released on the band's first album, the new version featuring a musical quotation from the sevdalinka "Lijepi li su Mostarski dućani" (" Mostar 's Shops Are Beautiful"). The album also featured the band's version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's Turkish March . This lineup did not last long either; in the middle of 1988 tour, Vojičić, Podany and Šehović left
13992-634: The song "Do prvog dodira" ("Until the First Touch") featured Ivana Peters , frontess of the Belgrade band Negative , on lead vocals. Alongside well-received "Samo da znaš" ("You Should Know") and "Kad te netko spomene" ("When Someone Mentions You"), the album featured a new version of "Đavolji grad" ("Devil's City"), originally released on Čarobnjaci . In 2016, Lipovača released his second solo album, Internal Waves of Love , featuring mostly instrumental compositions, with several tracks featuring former Black Sabbath member Tony Martin on vocals. In 2018,
14124-499: The song "Touch Me Little Girl", the only English language song on the album. The songs were composed by Lipovača, and the lyrics were written by Islamović and Slobodan Đurašović. The album brought the hits "Ciganka" ("Gypsy Girl") and "Let na drugi svijet" ("Flight to Another World"). For the promotional tour, the band was joined by keyboardist Samir Šestan "Droga", a member of the band Rezervni Točak ( Spare Wheel ) from Doboj . Soon after they finished Vatra promotional tour, owing to
14256-429: The songs of rhythm and blues influenced British Invasion acts, including " You Really Got Me " by the Kinks (1964), " My Generation " by the Who (1965) and " (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction " (1965) by the Rolling Stones . Soft rock was often derived from folk rock , using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody and harmonies. In contrast, hard rock was most often derived from blues rock and
14388-535: The stage outfit of AC/DC guitarist Angus Young . During 1981, the band played around one hundred concerts, including the September 1981 performance on the festival at the Belgrade Hippodrome , headlined by the most popular Yugoslav band Bijelo Dugme and British heavy metal band Iron Maiden , for which this was the first performance in the region. Divlje Jagode also had a successful appearance at
14520-435: The style from hard rock, although a number of these bands or their members would continue to record some songs closer to a hard rock sound. Kiss moved away from their hard rock roots toward pop metal: firstly removing their makeup in 1983 for their Lick It Up album, and then adopting the visual and sound of glam metal for their 1984 release, Animalize , both of which marked a return to commercial success. Pat Benatar
14652-489: The success of the band's venture in England, Islamović accepted the invitation from Goran Bregović , the leader of the most popular Yugoslav band Bijelo Dugme , to join his group as the replacement for the vocalist Mladen Vojičić "Tifa" , and the album Wild Strawberries was released internationally without much promotion. After a hiatus, Lipovača reformed the group in Yugoslavia with Bijelo Dugme's former frontman Vojičić as
14784-404: The track " Stairway to Heaven ", which would become the most played song in the history of album-oriented radio. Deep Purple continued to define their unique brand of hard rock, particularly with their album Machine Head (1972), which included the tracks " Highway Star " and " Smoke on the Water ". In 1975 guitarist Ritchie Blackmore left, going on to form Rainbow and after the break-up of
14916-659: The two styles. Despite this differentiation, hard rock and heavy metal have coexisted with one another, with bands frequently flirting with the boundaries of, or hybridizing the genres. The roots of hard rock can be traced back to the mid-to-late 1950s, particularly electric blues , which laid the foundations for key elements such as a rough declamatory vocal style, heavy guitar riffs , string-bending blues-scale guitar solos , strong beat , thick riff-laden texture , and posturing performances. Electric blues guitarists began experimenting with hard rock elements such as driving rhythms, distorted guitar solos and power chords in
15048-461: The vocalist, recording the 1988 album Konji . In 1989, the band was joined by former Osmi Putnik vocalist Zlatan Stipišić "Džibo" . Despite making demo recording, the lineup featuring Stipišić never made any official releases, and Divlje Jagode disbanded in 1990. In 1994, Lipovača reformed the group, long-time bass guitarist Zlatan Čehić taking over the vocals. The band's following releases, Labude, kad rata ne bude (1994) and Sto vjekova (1996),
15180-554: Was a big hit and the singles " Photograph ", " Rock of Ages " and " Foolin' ", helped by the emergence of MTV , were successful. It was widely emulated, particularly by the emerging Californian glam metal scene. This was followed by US acts like Mötley Crüe , with their albums Too Fast for Love (1981) and Shout at the Devil (1983) and, as the style grew, the arrival of bands such as Ratt , White Lion , Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot . Quiet Riot's album Metal Health (1983)
15312-472: Was a considerable disappointment after the across-the-board success of Whitesnake ". Aerosmith's comeback album Permanent Vacation (1987) would begin a decade long revival of their popularity. Crazy Nights (1987) by Kiss was the band's biggest hit album since 1979 and the highest of their career in the UK. Mötley Crüe with Girls, Girls, Girls (1987) continued their commercial success and Def Leppard with Hysteria (1987) hit their commercial peak,
15444-441: Was a platinum-seller in the US and reached the top ten in nine other countries. After somewhat slower sales of its fourth album, Fair Warning , Van Halen rebounded with Diver Down in 1982, then reached their commercial pinnacle with 1984 . Heart , after floundering during the first half of the decade, made a comeback with their eponymous ninth studio album which contained four hit singles. The new medium of video channels
15576-531: Was abruptly ended. Alen Islamović, who was at the time spending ten hours a day practicing his English, was unsure of prospects of their success in Great Britain and believed that Divlje Jagode are neglecting the Yugoslav market. He decided to accept the second invitation from Goran Bregović and join Bijelo Dugme as a replacement for the vocalist Mladen Vojičić "Tifa" . Islamović's departure delayed
15708-462: Was also involved in many humanitarian concerts in Zagreb. Lipovača reformed Divlje Jagode with Ćehić and Budimlić, Čehić taking over the vocals. The band went to Germany, where they played several humanitarian concerts. In Germany, the band recorded their eight studio album, entitled Labude, kad rata ne bude ( Swan, When There's No More War ), presenting themselves with a softer sound than on their previous releases. The song "Na tvojim usnama" featured
15840-512: Was also recorded in Germany and produced by Werdin, and released in 1983. Although it did not repeat the commercial success of the previous album, Čarobnjaci brought the minor hit "Metalni radnici" ("Metal Workers"). With the arrival of bass guitarist Zlatan Čehić, formerly of the band Top ( Cannon ), Islamović quit playing bass guitar and concentrated on vocal duties only. During the album's supporting tour, Islamović received an invitation from Bijelo Dugme leader Goran Bregović to join his band as
15972-439: Was an international hit. This era also saw more glam-infused American hard rock bands come to the forefront, with both Poison and Cinderella releasing their multi-platinum début albums in 1986. Van Halen released 5150 (1986), their first album with Sammy Hagar on lead vocals, which sold over 6 million copies. By the second half of the decade, hard rock had become the most reliable form of commercial popular music in
16104-444: Was finally released in 2008, but only went platinum and failed to come close to the success of the band's late 1980s and early 1990s material. More successfully, AC/DC released the double platinum-certified Black Ice (2008). Bon Jovi continued to enjoy success, branching into country music with " Who Says You Can't Go Home ", and the rock/country album Lost Highway (2007). In 2009, Bon Jovi released The Circle , which marked
16236-453: Was fired soon after the release of the commercially unsuccessful 1998 album Van Halen III and Van Halen would not tour or record again until 2004. Guns N' Roses' original lineup was whittled away throughout the decade. Drummer Steven Adler was fired in 1990, guitarist Izzy Stradlin left in late 1991 after recording Use Your Illusion I and II with the band. Tensions between the other band members and lead singer Axl Rose continued after
16368-521: Was followed by a tour across Australia , for which the band was joined by their former bass guitarist Sanin Karić, and concerts in Switzerland . At the beginning of 2006, Galić returned to Divlje Jagode, along with long-time member Zlatan Čehić. During the same year, the band recorded the single "Piramida" ("Pyramid"), inspired by the reputed discovery of the Bosnian pyramids . During the same year,
16500-401: Was formed in 1977 by Sead Lipovača (guitar), Anto "Toni" Janković (vocals), Nihad Jusufhodžić (bass guitar), Adonis Dokuzović (drums) and Mustafa "Muc" Ismailovski (keyboards). Throughout Divlje Jagode's career, Lipovača would remain the leader and the only mainstay member of the group. The band gained the attention of the Yugoslav public and the media with their 1978 debut self-titled album and
16632-422: Was former Jersey member Žanil "Žak" Tataj . The album featured English language lyrics, written by Tataj and former Divlje Jagode member Zlatan Stipišić, and was produced by Nikša Bratoš , who also recorded keyboard sections, and provided backing vocals. The song "Can't Stop" featured Tina Rupčić on vocals, while the song "She Is Gone" featured former Kongres member Emir Cenić on vocals. During war years, Lipovača
16764-581: Was held for the first time in 1971 in Maribor and for the last time in 1978 in Novi Sad . The festival featured numerous prominent acts of the Yugoslav rock scene , and five various artists live albums were recorded on various editions of the festival. Most of the editions of the festival were sponsored by the League of Socialist Youth of Yugoslavia . The double live album Boom Pop Festival Ljubljana '74
16896-456: Was made by bands of the sleaze metal movement in Sweden, including Vains of Jenna , Hardcore Superstar and Crashdïet . Although Foo Fighters continued to be one of the most successful rock acts, with albums like In Your Honor (2005), many of the first wave of post-grunge bands began to fade in popularity. Acts like Creed , Staind , Puddle of Mudd and Nickelback took the genre into
17028-402: Was one of the first women to achieve commercial success in hard rock, releasing four consecutive US Top Five albums between 1980 and 1983. Often categorised with the new wave of British heavy metal, in 1981 Def Leppard released their second album High 'n' Dry , mixing glam-rock with heavy metal, and helping to define the sound of hard rock for the decade. The follow-up Pyromania (1983)
17160-482: Was played louder and with more intensity. Blues rock acts that pioneered the sound included Cream , the Jimi Hendrix Experience , and the Jeff Beck Group . Cream, in songs like " I Feel Free " (1966), combined blues rock with pop and psychedelia, particularly in the riffs and guitar solos of Eric Clapton . Cream's best known-song, " Sunshine of Your Love " (1967), is sometimes considered to be
17292-410: Was the first glam metal album, and arguably the first heavy metal album of any kind, to reach number one in the Billboard music charts and helped open the doors for mainstream success by subsequent bands. Established bands made something of a comeback in the mid-1980s. After an 8-year separation, Deep Purple returned with the classic Machine Head line-up to produce Perfect Strangers (1984) which
17424-417: Was used with considerable success by bands formed in previous decades. Among the first were ZZ Top, who mixed hard-edged blues rock with new wave music to produce a series of highly successful singles, beginning with " Gimme All Your Lovin' " (1983), which helped their albums Eliminator (1983) and Afterburner (1985) achieve diamond and multi-platinum status respectively. Others found renewed success in
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