Why Jay Jay French Says “Rock Is Dead” + How He Backs It Up. Much like Gene Simmons, Jay Jay French pointed to how music was in his youth to help bolster his argument that rock is dead.

In fact, the idea goes at least as far back as the late '60s, when the Doors recorded "Rock Is Dead." Into the early '70s, as the music became more commercialized, the Who joined the discussion.

Roger Daltrey Says Rock 'n' Roll Has 'Reached a Dead End' Roger Daltrey, the man who once sang "Long Live Rock," has declared that the genre is dead. Michael Gallucci ...

Ten years ago, Esquire asked Nick Simmons, son of Kiss legend Gene Simmons, to interview his father. In the piece, provocatively headlined Gene Simmons: 'Rock Is Finally Dead', Simmons Sr. claimed ...

Getty Image. For as long as I have been listening to rock ‘n’ roll, people have been telling me that the music I love is dead. When I was a grade-schooler in the late ’80s, people told me ...

Video (Photo credit: Wikipedia) We’ve been hearing the phrase “rock is dead” since The Who first uttered it in 1974. The proclamation has gotten louder as time marched on, but it’s really ...

A 2000s indie rock musician is dead at age 46, his bandmates announced over the weekend. Former Babyshambles guitarist ...

Meaning, someone will inevitably play the “rock is dead” card, and a million commenters will agree. Because that’s what happens every year — and every year, it’s wrong.

November 21, 2017 Is rock really dead ... and can the venerable genre co-exist with hip-hop?

A few years ago my friend Ben Saunders, then a graduate student in the English department at Duke University, helped organize “Representing Rock,” a wonderful interdisciplinary conference on ...