A musician is ... Reflections on Legends

Explanatory dictionary, Wikipedia and logic unanimously state that a musician is someone who plays music or plays an instrument. But when it comes to guys playing rock, template words and stamps can be ignored, to put it mildly. So, let's talk about people who really did and make music. Let's remember who are the real Legends of Doom.

Purpose

A musician is a vocation. After all, it's true, to imagine, for example, Elvis Presley is a church preacher difficult. And that's exactly what could happen: the king grew up in a very religious family, and who knows how his fate would turn out, do not give him parents for his birthday guitar. Perhaps his talent would actually be hidden under the priest's cassock.

Vocation does not always find a person by chance. Many famous rock musicians showed a tendency to creativity even in early childhood. So, Freddie Mercury sang in the choir and performed on the stage of the school theater, and Kurt Cobain wrote the first song in four years. Sid Vishches went the way to fame from the very bottom, and after all he could just drop his hands and stop fighting and dreaming.

Whatever it was, these and many other outstanding personalities found their calling. And thanks to this they left us a unique musical heritage.

How do legends live?

A musician is a lifestyle. But how, everyone perfectly imagine the "hard" existence of a rock musician: every day, sex, drugs and rock and roll. And to all this we add more crowds of fans and just fans who follow the musicians, in whatever corner of the planet they give a concert. But to lead this life is not so easy, because the tour - it's constant travel and flights, life in hotels, and full self-giving on stage.

Rock is not only a lifestyle, it is also an ideology. This is a special philosophy of freedom and belief in oneself, in its dissimilarity in others. Rockers really differ from other musicians and their appearance, and behavior, and attitude to life. And even those groups that work in the same genre are completely different from each other.

Ideas and accomplishments

A musician is a fighter for an idea. Let's remember history. Rock musicians of the 60s and 70s of the last century opposed the war in Vietnam. Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan fought for peace in their songs, and John Lennon and his beloved Yoko did not hesitate to give interviews that openly appealed to politicians with requests to stop the bloodshed.

Rockers fought for the preservation of the environment. Recall the single of Marvin Gaye Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), a song that can rightfully be considered a hymn of grief over the lost beauty of nature. Or the song Black Rain Ozzy Osbourne, which reflects his thoughts about the war, politics and environmental problems of the planet.

It's not easy to get to the powerful of this world. Of course, military operations can not stop only because one person, even a very talented one, asked for this. But nevertheless, this man did everything he could to draw public attention to the global problem of human cruelty.

About creativity, life and freedom

A musician is a free artist. He is free to sing about what excites his heart, and do it as soon as he sees fit. Rock music is not creative work, it comes from the heart. And new musicians who gather in groups, rehearse in garages and play their songs in front of small halls, and their already well-known and recognized colleagues who collect huge stadiums - they all bring creativity to the world.

In fact, the conditions of the outside world are not important to them. They can write songs in an atmosphere of calm and harmony, like the brothers Malcolm and Angus Yangi, and in fact without a roof over their heads, like Sid Viches. But in that, and in another case the best musicians receive universal recognition.

A musician can compose romantic ballads about unrequited love, and can sing about the political situation. But in any situation he remains true to the genre and his heart.

And, finally, the most important thing

Musicians are creative personalities. They carry in the masses their own vision of the world, share their views and open up the open soul. And after getting to know the creativity of these people, you understand that reality is not so bad. There is an immaculate beauty in this world, and to perceive it, one must not only look but also listen.

They are known, remembered and loved, their songs are sung, their records are heard up to the holes. Their names are even called streets. Some of them are worshiped as idols, because they left behind an incredible heritage of their own. So let's keep it.