Classic rock

Classic rock is a format or classification used in the context of the American radio and phonographic industry, which has been used to categorize blues rock, hard rock, proto-metal and heavy metal bands that emerged since the late 1960s. until the 1980s, mostly those that reached mass. This commercial denomination is a derivative of the so-called album oriented rock rather than a style in itself, since all the very classic rock bands and artists had and have their own styles that identify them, and many even belong to different genres.

The KRBE radio station in Houston, Texas was the first, in 1983, to use the term as it is currently known; its programming consisted exclusively of songs by artists, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, the formula soon became popular and was copied by other stations (the so-called "all the classic rock radios"), passing the term (Classic rock) also to the industry as a label that designates commercially established artists who had their golden age in those times (1960 and 1970). The term Classic rock should not be confused with the rock and oll artists of the 1950s, as it was later coined, and is not specifically related to these.