record_label rock 'n' roll is king
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music , and a related genre of ___MASK55___ . Influenced by the music of Appalachia , bluegrass has mixed roots in Irish , Scottish and English traditional music , and was also later influenced by the music of African - Americans through incorporation of jazz elements . Roy Wood ( born 8 November 1946 ) is an ___MASK37___ singer - songwriter and multi - instrumentalist . He was particularly successful in the 1960s and 1970s as member and co - founder of the Move , Electric Light Orchestra and Wizzard . As a songwriter , he contributed a number of hits to the repertoire of these bands . The Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ) are an ___MASK37___ rock band formed in Birmingham in 1970 , by songwriters / multi - instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood with drummer Bev Bevan . Their music is characterised by a fusion of Beatlesque ___MASK65___ , classical arrangements , and futuristic iconography . After Wood ' s departure in 1972 , Lynne became the band ' s leader , arranging and producing every album while writing virtually all of their original material . ___MASK100___ is a genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll " in the United States in the 1950s , and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later , particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States . It has its roots in 1940s ' and 1950s ' rock and roll , itself heavily influenced by blues , rhythm and blues and country music . ___MASK100___ also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk , and incorporated influences from jazz , classical and other musical sources . Kelly Groucutt ( born Michael William Groucutt ; 8 September 1945  19 February 2009 ) was an ___MASK37___ musician who was best known for being the bassist and vocalist for the ___MASK37___ rock band Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ), between 1974 and 1983 . He was born in Coseley , West Midlands . ___MASK96___ was a British record label set up by Don Arden , with artists such as Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ), Roy Wood , Gary Moore , Ozzy Osbourne , Alan Price , Adrian Gurvitz , Riot and Magnum . The first release on the ___MASK96___ label was " No Honestly ", a UK top 10 for its singer and writer Lynsey De Paul in November 1974 , followed by the Lynsey De Paul album , " Taste Me ... Don ' t Waste Me ". De Paul wrote the second single on the Jet label , a song called " My One and Only " recorded by U . K . female group " Bones ". The fourth single released on the label , " My Man and Me ", was written and performed by Lynsey and it was the second U . K . hit single released on ___MASK96___ . Lynsey released a second album entitled " Love Bomb ", before leaving the label in 1976 after an acrimonious split with Arden , resulting in her third Jet album " Take Your Time " being unreleased . Jeffrey Lynne ( born 30 December 1947 ) is an ___MASK37___ songwriter , composer , arranger , singer , multi - instrumentalist and record producer who gained fame in the 1970s as the lead singer and sole constant member of Electric Light Orchestra . In 1988 , under the pseudonyms Otis Wilbury and Clayton Wilbury , he co - founded the supergroup ___MASK29___ with George Harrison , Bob Dylan , Roy Orbison and Tom Petty . The violino piccolo ( also called the " Diskantgeige ", " Terzgeige ", " Quartgeige " or " Violino alla francese ") is a stringed instrument of the baroque period . Most examples are similar to a child ' s size ___MASK1___ in size , and are tuned a third or a fourth higher . Probably the most famous work featuring violino piccolo is the first Brandenburg Concerto of Johann Sebastian Bach . Michael Kaminski ( born 2 September 1951 ) is an ___MASK37___ musician . He is best known for playing ___MASK1___ in the rock band Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ) between 1973 and 1979 . Secret Messages is the tenth ___MASK50___ by Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ), released in 1983 through ___MASK96___ . It was the last ELO album with bass guitarist Kelly Groucutt , conductor Louis Clark , and real stringed instruments , and the last ELO album to be released on ___MASK96___ . It was also the final ELO ___MASK50___ to become a worldwide top 40 hit upon release . In music , an arrangement is a musical reconceptualization of a previously composed work . It may differ from the original work by means of reharmonization , melodic paraphrasing , orchestration , or development of the formal structure . Arranging differs from orchestration in that the latter process is limited to the assignment of notes to instruments for performance by an orchestra , concert band , or other musical ensemble . Arranging " involves adding compositional techniques , such as new thematic material for introductions , transitions , or modulations , and endings ... Arranging is the art of giving an existing ___MASK75___ musical variety ". " Beatlesque " loosely describes music which sounds like the ___MASK37___ rock band ___MASK39___ . The term is widely used to an inconsistent degree , as the " Toronto Star " s Jack Sakamoto notes : "[ some people ' s ] notion of that sound includes everyone from Panic ! at the Disco to Billy Joel to the Red Hot Chili Peppers . With those reference points , it ' s debatable whether ___MASK39___ themselves would qualify for the adjective their music has spawned ." ___MASK55___ is a genre of United States popular music that originated in the southern United States in the 1920s . It takes its roots from the southeastern genre of United States , such as folk music ( especially Appalachian folk music ), and blues music . Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history . ___MASK55___ often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments such as banjos , electric and acoustic guitars , dobros and fiddles as well as harmonicas . According to Lindsey Starnes , the term " ___MASK55___ " gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to the earlier term " hillbilly music "; it came to encompass Western music , which evolved parallel to hillbilly music from similar roots , in the mid - 20th century . The term " ___MASK55___ " is used today to describe many styles and subgenres . The origins of ___MASK55___ are the folk music of working - class Americans , who blended popular songs , Irish and Celtic fiddle tunes , traditional English ballads , and cowboy songs , and various musical traditions from European immigrant communities . In 2009 ___MASK55___ was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute , and second most popular in the morning commute in the United States . An electric ___MASK1___ is a ___MASK1___ equipped with an electronic output of its sound . The term most properly refers to an instrument intentionally made to be electrified with built - in pickups , usually with a solid body . It can also refer to a ___MASK1___ fitted with an electric pickup of some type , although " amplified ___MASK1___ " or " electro - acoustic ___MASK1___ " are more accurate in that case . `` Rock ' n ' Roll Is King '' is a song written and performed by Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ) released as a single from the 1983 ___MASK69___ Secret Messages . With this song the band returned to their rock roots . It features a ___MASK1___ solo by Mik Kaminski . The song went through many changes during recording and at one point was going to be called `` Motor Factory '' with a completely different set of lyrics . The single proved to be ELO ' s last UK top twenty hit single , and reached no . 19 in the US in August 1983 . `` I sang on quite a few tracks ; I sang on Rock ' N ' Roll Is King . I played on that one , but it was n ' t called that , it was something about something about working at Austin Longbridge ! It was full of car plant sounds , you could hear it going clank , clank , clank , like somebody hitting a lathe with a hammer , and Jeff went away and made it into Rock ' n ' Roll Is King , wiped off everything we ' d done , no , there was still some backing left in there , It was much better how he finished it off than it was before . '' Dave Morgan ( 4 March 1999 -- King Of The Universe # 8 ) Professional wrestling tag team Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson , also known as The Rock ' n ' Roll Express , began using Rock ' n ' Roll Is King as their ring entrance music after 1983 . In music theory , a ___MASK90___ fifth is the musical interval corresponding to a pair of pitches with a frequency ratio of 3 : 2 , or very nearly so . Fiddle is another name for the bowed string musical instrument more often called a ___MASK1___ . It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres , including classical music . Fiddle playing , or fiddling , refers to various styles of music . Fiddle is also a common term among musicians who play folk music on the ___MASK1___ . The fiddle is part of many traditional ( folk ) styles of music which are aural traditions , taught ' by ear ' rather than via written music . Fiddle is normally the term used for Irish Traditional Music . The ___MASK1___ family of musical instruments was developed in Italy in the 16th century . At the time the name of this family of instruments was violas da braccio which was used to distinguish them from the viol family ( violas " da gamba "). The standard modern ___MASK1___ family consists of the ___MASK1___ , viola , cello , and double bass . The kit ___MASK1___ , dancing master ' s kit , or kit , is a stringed instrument . It is essentially a very small ___MASK1___ , designed to fit in a pocket  hence its other common name , the pochette ( French for " small pocket "). It was used by dance masters in royal courts and other places of nobility , as well as by street musicians until around the 18th century . Occasionally , the rebec was used in the same way . Several are called for ( as " violini piccoli alla francese " - small French violins ) in Monteverdi ' s 1607 " Orfeo ". Beverley " Bev " Bevan ( born 25 November 1944 ) is an ___MASK37___ rock musician , who was the drummer and one of the original members of The Move and Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ). After the end of ELO in 1986 , he founded ELO Part II . Birmingham is a major city and metropolitan borough of West Midlands , England . It is the largest and most populous British city outside London , with a population in 2014 of 1 , 101 , 360 . The city is in the West Midlands Built - up Area , the third most populous urban area in the ___MASK2___ , with a population of 2 , 440 , 986 at the 2011 census . Birmingham ' s metropolitan area is the second most populous in the UK with a population of 3 . 8 million . This also makes Birmingham the 9th most populous metropolitan area in Europe . The ___MASK1___ is a wooden string instrument in the ___MASK1___ family . It is the smallest and highest - pitched instrument in the family in regular use . Smaller ___MASK1___ - type instruments are known , including the violino piccolo and the kit ___MASK1___ , but these are virtually unused in the 2010s . The ___MASK1___ typically has four strings tuned in perfect fifths , and is most commonly played by drawing a bow across its strings , though it can also be played by plucking the strings with the fingers ( pizzicato ). Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres . They are most prominent in the Western classical tradition and in many varieties of folk music . They are also frequently used in genres of folk including country music and bluegrass music and in jazz . Electric violins are used in some forms of ___MASK100___ ; further , the ___MASK1___ has come to be played in many non - Western music cultures , including Indian music and Iranian music . The ___MASK1___ is sometimes informally called a fiddle , particularly in Irish traditional music and bluegrass , but this nickname is also used regardless of the type of music played on it .