Chicago　

According to Billboard chart statistics, Chicago is second only to the Beach Boys as the most successful American rock band of all time, in terms of both albums and singles. Judged by album s ..more

The Clash　

The Sex Pistols may have been the first British punk rock band, but the Clash were the definitive British punk rockers. Where the Pistols were nihilistic, the Clash were fiery and ideal ..more

Carpenters　

The Carpenters are known for crystal voice and her brother Richard’s outstanding songwriting and arrangements full of lush harmonies and strings. Their music has long been loved, particularly in Japan ..more

Cream　

Although Cream were only together for a little more than two years, their influence was immense, both during their late-’60s peak and in the years following their breakup. Cream were the first t ..more

Carole King　

While the landmark Tapestry album earned her superstar status, singer/songwriter Carole King had already firmly established herself as one of pop music’s most gifted and successful composers, wi ..more

Celine Dion　

Rising from humble beginnings to become an international pop star selling more than 100 million albums worldwide, Celine Dion’s career spanned years of superstardom in the 1990s as well as more div ..more

The Cure　

Out of all the bands that emerged in the immediate aftermath of punk rock in the late ’70s, few were as enduring and popular as the Cure. Led through numerous incarnations by guitarist/vocalist R ..more

Cheap Trick　

Combining a love for British guitar pop songcraft with crunching power chords and a flair for the absurd, Cheap Trick provided the necessary links between ’60s pop, heavy metal, and punk. Led by gu ..more

Creedence Clearwater Revival　

At a time when rock was evolving away from the forces that had made the music possible in the first place, Creedence Clearwater Revival brought things back to their roots with their concise synthes ..more

Cyndi Lauper　

Cyndi Lauper began her career as a playful rebel, and matured into one of the best respected artists in American music. Lauper rose to fame in 1983 with the release of She’s So Unusual, an al ..more

Coldplay　

After surfacing in 2000 with the breakthrough single Yellow, Coldplay quickly became one of the biggest bands of the new millennium, honing a mix of introspective Brit-pop and anthemic rock that ..more

Camel　

Camel never achieved the mass popularity of fellow British progressive rock bands like the Alan Parsons Project, but they cultivated a dedicated cult following. Over the course of their caree ..more

Can　

Always at least three steps ahead of contemporary popular music, Can were the leading avant-garde rock group of the ’70s. From their very beginning, their music didn’t conform to any commonly held ..more

Cher　

Colosseum　

One of the most influential of the early British progressive rock bands, Colosseum fused an adventurous approach to rock with strong jazz and blues influences and classical keyboard accents; they e ..more

Children Of Bodom　

Combining elements of melodic death metal, power metal, neo-classical, and thrash, Children of Bodom have been one of the world’s most expansive and hard to define bands since their formation in 19 ..more

Carly Simon　

Carly Simon was one of the most popular of the confessional singer/songwriters who emerged in the early ’70s. The youngest daughter in an upper-class New York family (her father, Richard Simon, co- ..more

Candlemass　

Sweden’s Candlemass helped reintroduce the lumbering power chords of Black Sabbath to an entire generation of post-New Wave of British Heavy Metal and post-thrash metalheads, almost single ..more

The Cars　

Blondie may have had a string of number one hits and Talking Heads may have won the hearts of the critics, but the Cars were the most successful American new wave band to emerge in the lat ..more

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