| POLL RESULTS |
| Week: |
441 |
| Date: |
12/1/2014 |
| Question: |
What was the most important moment in Rock history? |
| Your Vote |
Option |
Votes |
Percent |
| |
Elvis Presley's first record release ('That's Allright Mama', July 5, 1954)
 |
57 |
10.8% |
| |
The Beatles first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show (February 9, 1964)
|
57 |
10.8% |
| |
Bill Haley and the Comets' 'Rock Around the Clock' is released (May 20, 1954)
|
55 |
10.5% |
| |
The Beatles start the British invasion in the US (February 7,1964)
|
51 |
9.7% |
| |
The Woodstock Music Festival is held (August 15–18, 1969)
|
51 |
9.7% |
| |
John Lennon is assassinated (December 8, 1980)
|
20 |
3.8% |
| |
Chuck Berry plays the guitar intro to 'Johnny B. Goode' for the first time (January 6, 1958)
|
16 |
3% |
| |
Chuck Berry's 'Maybellene' is released (July 1955)
|
16 |
3% |
| |
Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival (July 25, 1965)
|
15 |
2.9% |
| |
Elvis Presley is shown from the waist up on The Ed Sullivan Show (September 9, 1956)
|
15 |
2.9% |
| |
The beginning of the Beatles (March 1957 to 1960)
|
15 |
2.9% |
| |
A black bar appears as the number one single in England (June '77), the song, the Sex Pistols' 'God Save the Queen'
|
14 |
2.7% |
| |
Album sales outnumber single sales for the first time (in 1967)
|
14 |
2.7% |
| |
The release of the first rock song, Ike Turner's 'Rocket 88' (March 3, 1951)
|
12 |
2.3% |
| |
Stones play Altamont (December 6, 1969) and unknowingly cause the death of the 1960s love moment
|
11 |
2.1% |
| |
The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (June 1, 1967)
|
11 |
2.1% |
| |
Wall of Sound starts as Phil Spector produces the Ronettes' 'Be My Baby' (July-August 1963)
|
9 |
1.7% |
| |
Bob Dylan records 'Like a Rolling Stone' (June 16, 1965)
|
7 |
1.3% |
| |
Berry Gordy starts Motown Records (late 1958)
|
6 |
1.1% |
| |
Keith Richards awakes to find his tape recorder at its tape's ending (& finds the riff to 'Satisfaction', 1965)
|
5 |
1% |
| |
The Beatles first psychedelic record 'Tomorrow Never Knows' (August 5, 1966)
|
5 |
1% |
| |
The Concert for Bangladesh sets the stage for Rock benefit concerts (August 1, 1971)
|
5 |
1% |
| |
Black Sabbath release their first self titled album (February 13, 1970), the real first metal LP
|
4 |
0.8% |
| |
Live Aid held (July 13 1985) Wembley Stadium in London/John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia
|
4 |
0.8% |
| |
Michael Jackson debuting 'Billie Jean' (and the moonwalk) at the 'Motown 25' special (May 16, 1983)
|
4 |
0.8% |
| |
MTV airs for the very first time (August 1, 1981)
|
4 |
0.8% |
| |
The magazine Rolling Stone hits the stands (November 9, 1967) with Lennon on the cover
|
4 |
0.8% |
| |
The Monterey Pop Music Festival is held (June 16-18, 1967)
|
4 |
0.8% |
| |
Aretha Franklin's 'Respect' is released (August 15, 1965)
|
3 |
0.6% |
| |
Bob Dylan turns the Beatles on to weed (late 1964)
|
3 |
0.6% |
| |
Jim Morrison sings original lyrics to 'Light My Fire' on Ed Sullivan Show after saying he wouldn't (Sep 1967)
|
3 |
0.6% |
| |
The Monkees TV show debuts on NBC (September 12, 1966)
|
3 |
0.6% |
| |
The sudden drug death of Elvis Presley (August 16, 1977)
|
3 |
0.6% |
| |
Chubby Checker performs 'The Twist' on Dick Clark's American Bandstand (September 19, 1960)
|
2 |
0.4% |
| |
David Bowie releases Ziggy Stardust (June 6, 1972)
|
2 |
0.4% |
| |
Jimi Hendrix plays 'Star Spangled Banner' Live at Woodstock (August 18, 1969)
|
2 |
0.4% |
| |
Led Zeppelin release 'Stairway to Heaven' (November 8, 1971)
|
2 |
0.4% |
| |
Pete Townshend breaks his first guitar at the Railway Hotel in London (September 1964)
|
2 |
0.4% |
| |
The Grateful Dead play their first Acid Test (December 4, 1965)
|
2 |
0.4% |
| |
The Who's Keith Moon blows up his drum set on The Smothers Brothers Show (September 17, 1967)
|
2 |
0.4% |
| |
Alice Cooper and the onstage chicken incident at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival concert (September 1969)
|
1 |
0.2% |
| |
Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar at the Monterey Pop Music Festival (June 18, 1967)
|
1 |
0.2% |
| |
Little Richard records 'Tutti-Frutti' (September 14, 1955)
|
1 |
0.2% |
| |
The Rock and Roll Circus is held in London (December 11 and 12, 1968)
|
1 |
0.2% |
| |
The Shirelles become first girl group to have a #1 single with 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow' (January 30, 1961)
|
1 |
0.2% |
| |
The Who release 'My Generation' (November 5, 1965)
|
1 |
0.2% |
| |
Bruce Springsteen appears on the covers of Time and Newsweek in the same week (October 27, 1975)
|
0 |
0% |
| |
The Beatles' 'Bigger Than Jesus' backlash (March 4, 1966)
|
0 |
0% |
| |
The Who concert tragedy in Cincinnati (December 3, 1979)
|
0 |
0% |
| Totals: |
526 |
100% |