History Main / ClassicRock

* Music/DuranDuran -- New wave music, pop rock, dance-rock

* Music/RodStewart -- Pop rock, soft rock.

* Music/{{Bread}} -- SoftRock

* {{Music/Blondie}} -- {{New Wave|Music}}, PopPunk, PunkRock.

Classic rock is not, strictly speaking, a musical genre, but rather a {{radio}} format that features old-school rock songs that originally catered to Baby Boomers entering middle age who were alienated by newer music styles. There is no set definition of "classic rock," with just about everybody having their own personal criteria. The unwritten definition used by the website ultimateclassicrock.com (and many people) generally seems to be any music created by a non-[[AlternativeRock alternative]] [[note]] excluding {{New Wave|Music}}, PunkRock, and PostPunk, if you even consider these genres to be alternative [[/note]] rock band/artist that was at the peak of their/his/her career sometime in between the {{Rockabilly}}/RockAndRoll (using the strictest definition of the latter term) and the {{Grunge}}[=/=]AlternativeRock eras (basically, rock from the middle-ish [[TheSixties 1960s]] to the very early [[TheNineties '90s]]). Although the earlier rock and roll artists of the [[TheFifties '50s]] and early [[TheSixties '60s]] are indeed both classic and rock, they're usually not considered to be "classic rock" from a programming standpoint, instead being relegated to oldies stations. Meanwhile, a number of classic rock stations, seeking to update their playlists as the Gen Xers and older Millenials have aged into their advertisers' target demographics, have begun to play more recent music, including grunge and alternative artists.

Classic rock is not, strictly speaking, a musical genre, but rather a {{radio}} format that features old-school rock songs. There is no set definition of "classic rock," with just about everybody having their own personal criteria. The unwritten definition used by the website ultimateclassicrock.com (and many people) generally seems to be any music created by a non-[[AlternativeRock alternative]] [[note]] excluding {{New Wave|Music}}, PunkRock, and PostPunk, if you even consider these genres to be alternative [[/note]] rock band/artist that was at the peak of their/his/her career sometime in between the {{Rockabilly}}/RockAndRoll (using the strictest definition of the latter term) and the {{Grunge}}[=/=]AlternativeRock eras (basically, rock from the middle-ish [[TheSixties 1960s]] to the very early [[TheNineties '90s]]). Although the earlier rock and roll artists of the [[TheFifties '50s]] and early [[TheSixties '60s]] are indeed both classic and rock, they're usually not considered to be "classic rock" from a programming standpoint, instead being relegated to oldies stations. Meanwhile, a number of classic rock stations, seeking to update their playlists as the Gen Xers and older Millenials have aged into their advertisers' target demographics, have begun to play more recent music, including grunge and alternative artists.