the Lovetones

USA

Formed: 1962

Years Active: 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000

Genres: Pop/Rock, Blues

Styles: Rock & Roll, Rock & Roll/Roots, Hard Rock, British Invasion, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock, Album Rock, British Psychedelia, Psychedelic, Psychedelic/Garage, Blues-Rock, Electric Texas Blues, Modern Electric Blues, Modern Electric Texas Blues, British Blues, AM Pop, Early Pop/Rock

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By the time the Rolling Stones began calling themselves the World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the late '60s, they had already staked out an impressive claim on the title. As the self-consciously dangerous alternative to the bouncy Merseybeat of the Beatles in the British Invasion, the Stones had pioneered the gritty, hard-driving blues-based rock & roll that came to define hard rock. With his preening machismo and latent maliciousness, Mick Jagger became the prototypical rock frontman, tempering his macho showmanship with a detached, campy i...

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