List of rock and roll artists

List of performers of Rock and roll music

Predecessors and Precursors (1900-1950)

• Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five
• The Treniers
• Stick McGhee and his Buddies
• Les Paul

Early North American rock and roll (1951-1963)

• Beach Boys
• Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats credited with "Rocket 88" in 1951)
• Ike Turner (wrote "Rocket 88", led the band, produced the record)
• Chuck Berry, singer, songwriter, guitarist, entertainer
• Eddie Cochran, rockabilly guitar hero, more influential in Great Britain than US.
• Dick Dale, creator of surf guitar, and, an actual surfer.
• Bo Diddley, transformed Mississippi blues into his own thing.
• Dion and the Belmonts
• Fats Domino, New Orleans piano player, singer, genial, unthreatening, with more than 20 number one hits in the 50s
• Everly Brothers
• Fabian
• Connie Francis
• Girl bands
• Bill Haley and his Comets, key contributors to the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll
• Buddy Holly
• Jan and Dean
• Brenda Lee
• Jerry Lee Lewis, wild man of the piano
• Little Richard, wilder man of the piano
• Ricky Nelson, the first teen idol, pioneer of promoting music via TV
• Roy Orbison, The Voice
• Lloyd Price
• Righteous Brothers
• Tommy James and the Shondells
• Carl Perkins
• Elvis Presley, the King
• Jackie Wilson

See also: Folk music

The "British Invasion" (1963-1967)

• The Beatles
• Dave Clark Five
• The Kinks
• The Rolling Stones
• The Who
• The Animals
• Herman's Hermits

Psychedelia, "Progressive Rock" and Woodstock (1968-1974)

• Black Sabbath
• Blue Oyster Cult
• Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Deep Purple
• The Doors
• Nick Drake
• Bob Dylan
• The Eagles
• Genesis
• Grateful Dead
• Jimi Hendrix
• Jefferson Airplane
• Janis Joplin
• King Crimson
• Love
• Led Zeppelin
• Jethro Tull
• Joni Mitchell
• Moby Grape
• Moving Sidewalks
• Nirvana (original version)
• Pink Floyd
• Roxy Music
• Simon and Garfunkel
• The Velvet Underground
• Captain Beefheart (aka Don van Vliet)
• Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
• Yes

Return to Basics: punk, metal and other trends (1975-1987)

• The Clash
• Culture Club
• Dead Kennedys
• The Slits
• The Fall
• Hüsker Dü
• Elvis Costello
• KISS
• Metallica
• Midnight Oil
• Minor Threat
• The Modern Lovers
• The Ramones
• REM
• Rush
• The Sex Pistols
• Patti Smith
• Scorpions
• Television
• Tom Waits
• U2
• X
• The Damned
• Talking Heads
• The Jam
• Camper Van Beethoven
• Dead Milkmen

Current (1988-present)

• Catatonia
• The Datsuns
• The D4
• The Faint
• Foo Fighters
• The Mooney Suzuki
• Nirvana (later version)
• Pacifier (formally known as Shihad)
• The Pixies
• PJ Harvey
• Primus
• Radiohead
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Superchunk
• System of a Down
• Suzanne Vega
• The White Stripes

Other individual artists who have or deserve entries (unsure how/whether to classify):

• Kate Bush
• Meat Loaf
• Morphine
• Soul Coughing
• Throbbing Gristle

Subcategories with or deserving of entries:

• British Pop
• Disco
• Funk
• Grunge music
• Hard Rock
• Heavy metal music
  • Speed metal
  • Death metal
  • Progressive metal
• Psychedelic music
• Punk rock

See also Rock band, List of popular music performers