Why do classic rock bands continue to survive long after newer bands die out?
Just about anyone who grew up in the sixties and seventies loves the classic rock bands of those decades and these days even the music from the eighties classifies as classic rock. The young adults in college today were born well after the heyday of such huge eighties bands as AC/DC and Def Leppard. Whatever the reason, while many more recent bands and their music have been forever forgotten in a sea of anonymity, classic rock CDs are still selling in the hundreds of millions each year with no end in sight and each new generation becomes a new generation to fall in love with these old tunes. Today, more than forty years after their debut, Led Zeppelin’s songs are still heard on radio stations around the United States. And who can forget the Beatles? This, the most classic of all classic rock bands, is still hugely successful nearly five decades after it started, three decades after its breakup and years after the deaths of two of the band’s four members. Why are these bands still doing
