Information about Icelandic Rock
Rock and roll is a style of popular American music which has spread across the world, including to the North Atlantic island nation of Iceland. Rock came to the island beginning in the mid-1950s. Rock's popularity increased steadily over the next few years. This wave peaked with the tour by Tony Crombie & His Rockets in May of 1957. A few bands with their own style did emerge, however, including City, Disco and Lúdó.
From 1930 until the mid 1980s, radio broadcasting in Iceland was a state monopoly controlled by the "cultural" elite and consequently rock music was not played much at all on Icelandic radio. But despite this state of affairs, Icelandic popular culture was not completely isolated from the outside world. Crews of Icelandic fishing boats and commercial aircraft would buy rock records in America, England and Germany and bring them back home to Iceland. Also, the US Navy base in KeflavÃk, Iceland, operated a radio station for the troops (AFRS 1484 on the radio dial) that mainly played rock music and was very popular with young Icelanders in the ReykjavÃk area and remained important to Icelandic rock music until at least the mid 1970s. Some of the disc-jockeys from the early 70's were Tom Wiecks, Jim Roark, Karl Phillips, and Mark Lazar.
The British Invasion and Beatlemania arrived in Iceland in 1964, and the indigenous groups Hljómar from KeflavÃk and Dátar from ReykjavÃk arose as Icelandic counterparts to The Beatles, later followed by Flowers, Bendix and other bands. Beginning in about 1969, the English language period of Icelandic rock began, with bands like Trúbrot, Náttúra and Pelikan becoming popular.
From 1973 to 1979, the ReykjavÃk rock scene was dominated by progressive rock and funk groups such as Eik and Cabaret (these two groups merged under the name Eik in 1977).
The mid to late 1970s saw the rise of Gunnar Ãórðarson and Magnús EirÃksson, who revitalized the field of Icelandic rock and created a more distinctive national style. A wave of punk rock based out of ReykjavÃk occurred in about 1981 and temporarily displaced more traditional rock music, much like rock had displaced jazz in the early 1960s. Notable mid to late 1980s Icelandic rock bands include GrafÃk and Tobmobile as well as the punkers in The Sugarcubes featuring Björk. Towards the end of the 20th century and continuing to the present (2005), the group Quarashi with its mixture of rock and rap has achieved international attention; the same applies to the hard rock group MÃnus and the lethargic Sigur Rós. From the late 1980s continuing to the present (2005) the band "Sálin hans Jóns mins" or just "Sálin" has had a strong presence on the Icelandic rock scene.
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The British Invasion was the term applied by media - and subsequently by consumers - to the influx of rock and roll, beat and pop performers from the United Kingdom who became popular in the United States, Australia & Canada.
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From 1930 until the mid 1980s, radio broadcasting in Iceland was a state monopoly controlled by the "cultural" elite and consequently rock music was not played much at all on Icelandic radio. But despite this state of affairs, Icelandic popular culture was not completely isolated from the outside world. Crews of Icelandic fishing boats and commercial aircraft would buy rock records in America, England and Germany and bring them back home to Iceland. Also, the US Navy base in KeflavÃk, Iceland, operated a radio station for the troops (AFRS 1484 on the radio dial) that mainly played rock music and was very popular with young Icelanders in the ReykjavÃk area and remained important to Icelandic rock music until at least the mid 1970s. Some of the disc-jockeys from the early 70's were Tom Wiecks, Jim Roark, Karl Phillips, and Mark Lazar.
The British Invasion and Beatlemania arrived in Iceland in 1964, and the indigenous groups Hljómar from KeflavÃk and Dátar from ReykjavÃk arose as Icelandic counterparts to The Beatles, later followed by Flowers, Bendix and other bands. Beginning in about 1969, the English language period of Icelandic rock began, with bands like Trúbrot, Náttúra and Pelikan becoming popular.
From 1973 to 1979, the ReykjavÃk rock scene was dominated by progressive rock and funk groups such as Eik and Cabaret (these two groups merged under the name Eik in 1977).
The mid to late 1970s saw the rise of Gunnar Ãórðarson and Magnús EirÃksson, who revitalized the field of Icelandic rock and created a more distinctive national style. A wave of punk rock based out of ReykjavÃk occurred in about 1981 and temporarily displaced more traditional rock music, much like rock had displaced jazz in the early 1960s. Notable mid to late 1980s Icelandic rock bands include GrafÃk and Tobmobile as well as the punkers in The Sugarcubes featuring Björk. Towards the end of the 20th century and continuing to the present (2005), the group Quarashi with its mixture of rock and rap has achieved international attention; the same applies to the hard rock group MÃnus and the lethargic Sigur Rós. From the late 1980s continuing to the present (2005) the band "Sálin hans Jóns mins" or just "Sálin" has had a strong presence on the Icelandic rock scene.
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It has now merged with NjarðvÃk and Hafnir to form a municipality called Reykjanesbær.
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Thor's Hammer, or Hljómar, was an Icelandic rock band primarily active in the 1960s. Outside of Iceland, they are known among music collectors for their rare releases on Parlophone, sung in English and recorded in London for export.
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Trúbrot were an Icelandic psychedelic/progressive rock band active in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were one of the foremost groups on the Icelandic rock scene from this time period.
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Magnús EirÃksson (born 22 June, 1806 in Skinnalón (Norður-Ãingeyjarsýsla), Iceland; died 3 July, 1881 in Copenhagen, Denmark) was an Icelandic theologian and a critical contemporary of Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) and Hans Lassen Martensen (1808-1884) in Copenhagen.
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Quarashi was a rap/hip-hop group from ReykjavÃk, Iceland. It was comprised of Hössi Ólafsson (replaced by Tiny (real name Egill Ólafur Thorarensen) on the final album), who was the lead vocalist and frontman of the group, Omar Swarez (Ómar Örn Hauksson), who served as a rapper and
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