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Rock n' Roll Cop (省港一号通缉犯)
Rock n' Roll Cop (省港一號通緝犯) is a 1994 Hong Kong crime action thriller directed by Kirk Wong, starring Anthony Wong as a Hong Kong inspector partnered with a mainland detective (Wu Hsing-kuo) hunting border-crossing robbers; the finale of Wong's cop trilogy.
Rock of Ages (2012 film)
Rock of Ages (2012) is Adam Shankman's film of Chris D'Arienzo's jukebox musical, starring Tom Cruise as rock star Stacee Jaxx. Set in 1987 on the Sunset Strip, it scored 43% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Rock of Ages (musical)
Rock of Ages is a jukebox musical with book by Chris D'Arienzo, set in 1987 on the Sunset Strip. Premiered 2006 in LA, ran on Broadway 2009–2015 (2,328 performances), five Tony nominations, filmed in 2012 with Tom Cruise.
Rock of Cashel
Rock of Cashel (Carraig Phádraig, Caiseal): limestone outcrop in County Tipperary, Ireland, seat of the kings of Munster, granted to the church in 1101, home of Cormac's Chapel with Ireland's only surviving Romanesque frescoes.
Rock of Gibraltar
The Rock of Gibraltar, also called Mons Calpe, is a 6-km limestone promontory at the southern tip of Iberia, a British territory and nature reserve rising 1,396 ft.
Rock of Love with Bret Michaels
Rock of Love with Bret Michaels: VH1 celebreality dating series (2007-2009, three seasons, 39 episodes) where women competed for Poison frontman Bret Michaels; record-setting ratings, spinoffs Daisy of Love and I Love Money.
Rock of the Westies
Rock of the Westies is Elton John's tenth studio album, released October 1975, recorded at Caribou Ranch with producer Gus Dudgeon. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, featured the hit "Island Girl", and gets a 50th Anniversary Edition in November.
Rock On 2
Rock On 2 (2016) is a Hindi musical drama, sequel to Rock On!! (2008), directed by Shujaat Saudagar, reuniting band Magik with Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal, Purab Kohli, and new members Shraddha Kapoor and Shashank Arora; a critical and box-office flop.
Rock On!!
Rock On!! is a 2008 Hindi musical drama directed by Abhishek Kapoor about the rock band Magik's breakup and reunion, starring and sung by debutant Farhan Akhtar, with music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and a 2016 sequel.
Rock opera
Rock opera: a rock album or stage work telling a coherent story through connected songs, with characters and narrative. Key works: The Who's Tommy (1969), Jesus Christ Superstar (1970), Quadrophenia, American Idiot; distinct from concept albums and rock musicals.
Rock or Bust
Rock or Bust is AC/DC's 15th international studio album (16th counting Australian releases), released November-December 2014. First album with Stevie Young replacing Malcolm Young on rhythm guitar; produced by Brendan O'Brien in Vancouver; 11 songs in 34 minutes.
Rock or Bust World Tour
Rock or Bust World Tour: AC/DC's 2015-2016 stadium tour for the album Rock or Bust, opening at Coachella April 2015; Brian Johnson left with hearing loss and Axl Rose finished the 2016 legs; ended in Philadelphia September 2016.
Rock Paintings of Shulgan-Tash Cave
Rock Paintings of Shulgan-Tash (Kapova) Cave, Bashkortostan, Russia: Upper Palaeolithic ochre art of mammoths, horses, and Kapova trapezoids, dated 20,600-16,500 cal BP, UNESCO-inscribed 2025.
Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco
Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco: UNESCO World Heritage site (1993) in Baja California Sur, Mexico, home to Great Mural style rock art; over 400 sites, realistic human and animal figures in red, black, white, and yellow pigments.
Rock paper scissors
Rock paper scissors (janken, じゃんけん) is a three-gesture simultaneous hand game: rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper, paper beats rock. Its only Nash equilibrium is uniform random play, yet humans show cyclic biases, and it has a documented history from Ming-era China through Japanese ken games to organized tournaments.
Rock Paper Scissors (TV series)
Rock Paper Scissors is a Nickelodeon animated comedy (premiered February 12, 2024) created by Kyle Stegina and Josh Lehrman from an Intergalactic Shorts Program short, starring Ron Funches, Thomas Lennon, Carlos Alazraqui, and Melissa Villaseñor as personified roommates; renewed through a third season in 2026.
Rock poetry
Rock poetry (рок-поэзия) is a Russian poetic genre of song texts written for rock music, taking shape in the 1970s and 1980s with founding figures Andrei Makarevich and Boris Grebenshchikov.
Rock powder
Rock powder (rock dust, stone meal) is finely ground silicate rock used as a slow-release soil remineralizer, silicon-based pest deterrent, and enhanced-weathering carbon-removal amendment; not an approved EU pesticide active substance.
Rock ptarmigan
The rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) is a medium-sized grouse of arctic and alpine tundra that changes from white winter plumage to mottled brown in summer.
Rock quality designation
Rock quality designation (RQD) is a geomechanics index expressing rock mass quality from drill core, counting only sound pieces 100 mm or longer, developed by Deere in 1963.
Rock shelter
A rock shelter is a shallow, open recess beneath a rocky overhang at the base of a cliff, long used by humans for shelter, work, art, and burial.
Rock Sound
Rock Sound, formerly New Portsmouth and once Wreck Sound, is the major settlement of South Eleuthera, Bahamas, with Rock Sound International Airport and a district council under the Local Government Act 1996.
Rock Springs (film)
Rock Springs is Vera Miao's 2026 horror-drama feature debut, premiering at Sundance's Midnight section, starring Kelly Marie Tran, Benedict Wong, and Jimmy O. Yang as a family haunted by the 1885 Rock Springs Massacre of Chinese miners.
Rock Springs, Wyoming
Rock Springs, Wyoming: Sweetwater County city founded on 1868 Union Pacific coal mining, site of the 1885 Chinese massacre, population 23,526 (2020), fifth-largest Wyoming city.
Rock Star (2001 film)
Rock Star (2001) is a Warner Bros. drama-music film directed by Stephen Herek, starring Mark Wahlberg as tribute singer Chris 'Izzy' Cole, loosely based on Tim 'Ripper' Owens joining Judas Priest.
Rock Steady (album)
Rock Steady, No Doubt's fifth studio album (Interscope, December 11, 2001), a dancehall- and electropop-leaning record produced by Sly & Robbie, Prince, The Neptunes, Nellee Hooper, Ric Ocasek, and William Orbit, peaking at No. 9 on the Billboard 200.
Rock the Boat (Aaliyah song)
"Rock the Boat" is a 2001 R&B song by Aaliyah from her self-titled album, written by Static Major, Eric Seats, and Rapture Stewart. It peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 12 in the UK, and its Hype Williams video was her last before her 2001 death.
Rock the Casbah
Rock the Casbah is a 1982 single by The Clash from Combat Rock, built on drum, piano, and bass parts recorded by drummer Topper Headon, with Joe Strummer lyrics about a music-banning sharif; it peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, the band's only US top-ten hit.
Rock the Kasbah (film)
Rock the Kasbah is a 2015 American comedy directed by Barry Levinson, written by Mitch Glazer, starring Bill Murray as a music manager who discovers an Afghan singer for Afghan Star; released by Open Road Films, it grossed $3.0M and holds 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Rock tripe
Rock tripe, also called tripe de roche or navel lichen, is an edible lichen, mostly Umbilicaria, that clings to bare rock and is eaten as an emergency food.