Rock isn't dead, but there's never going to be anyone that had such a wide-ranging impact as Elvis, The Beatles, Ray Charles, Dylan, Motown, The Velvet Underground or the Pistols, is there? Anything "new" in the rock genre can be traced directly to the influence of one or more of those parties. I know they all had their influences, too, but the body of work they produced, and the cultural impression that they made can never be emulated.
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