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Gary Lewis (musician)
Gary Lewis (born Gary Harold Lee Levitch, 1946), son of comedian Jerry Lewis, led Gary Lewis & the Playboys, whose 1965-66 run included seven consecutive Top 10 singles and the No. 1 hit "This Diamond Ring."
Gavin Rossdale
Gavin Rossdale (Gavin McGregor Rossdale) is the English singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist who founded Bush in 1992, fronted Institute, released solo albums, and reunited Bush in 2010.
George McCrae
George McCrae, American soul and disco singer born 1944 in West Palm Beach, Florida, known for the 1974 TK Records hit "Rock Your Baby," a US and UK number one written by Casey and Finch.
Gerry Beckley
Gerry Beckley (Gerald Linford Beckley, born 1952, Fort Worth, Texas) is an American singer-songwriter and founding member of soft rock band America, writer of "Sister Golden Hair" and "I Need You," and a solo artist since 1995's Van Go Gan; he retired from touring in 2024 while remaining in the band.
Get a Grip
Get a Grip is Aerosmith's eleventh studio album (Geffen, April 20, 1993), produced by Bruce Fairbairn. Their first US No. 1 album, about 20 million sold, 7x Platinum, with singles Cryin', Amazing, Crazy, and Livin' on the Edge.
Get Your Wings
Get Your Wings (1974) is Aerosmith's second studio album, their first with producer Jack Douglas, recorded at the Record Plant, New York; it peaked at No. 74 in the US and includes Same Old Song And Dance and Train Kept A-Rollin'.
Gimme Shelter
Gimme Shelter: 1969 Rolling Stones song by Jagger and Richards opening Let It Bleed, with Merry Clayton's cracked guest vocal; also the 1970 Maysles-Zwerin documentary of the band's 1969 tour and the Altamont killing.
Girls, Girls, Girls (Mötley Crüe album)
Girls, Girls, Girls is Mötley Crüe's fourth studio album (May 15, 1987), produced by Tom Werman; 4x platinum, number two on Billboard, with hits Wild Side, You're All I Need, and the MTV-banned title track.
Glam metal
Glam metal, also called hair metal or pop metal, is a 1980s heavy metal subgenre with pop hooks, power ballads, and a flamboyant makeup-and-spandex look centered on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip, peaking with MTV before grunge displaced it.
Glam rock
Glam rock, also known as glitter rock, is a British rock style of the early 1970s marked by performers' glittery, androgynous image, led by T. Rex and David Bowie.
Glenn Frey
Glenn Frey (Glenn Lewis Frey, 1948-2016), Detroit-born co-founder, co-lead singer and principal songwriter of the Eagles; sang "Take It Easy," "Lyin' Eyes," "New Kid in Town"; had 1980s solo Top 40 hits; died of arthritis, colitis, pneumonia complications.
Glitch (music)
Glitch is an experimental electronic music genre using digital errors, skips, clicks, and artifacts as compositional material, pioneered by Oval, Autechre, and Alva Noto in the 1990s; also called Clicks and Cuts or Microsound, with subgenres glitch hop and glitch pop.
Go-go
Go-go is a funk subgenre from Washington, D.C., pioneered by Chuck Brown, defined by the continuous "pocket" groove, percussion, and call-and-response; official music of D.C. since 2020.
Gospel music
Gospel music, also called gospel singing, is Christian sacred music that emerged in the 1920s from African American church traditions, blending religious texts with blues and jazz rhythms.
Gothic rock
Gothic rock (goth rock) is a dark post-punk style from Britain, starting with Bauhaus's "Bela Lugosi's Dead" (1979) and the Sisters of Mercy, distinguished from deathrock, darkwave, and coldwave.
Grace Under Pressure (Rush album)
Grace Under Pressure is Rush's tenth studio album, released April 1984, recorded at Le Studio, Quebec, co-produced with Peter Henderson after Terry Brown's departure; eight synth-driven Cold War-themed tracks, a US and UK top-10 hit, reissued in 2026.
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Bronx hip hop group (formed 1977/1978) of DJ Flash, Melle Mel, Cowboy, Kidd Creole, Scorpio, Rahiem; Quick Mix pioneer, "The Message" (1982), first hip hop Rock Hall inductee (2007).
Grateful (DJ Khaled album)
Grateful is DJ Khaled's tenth studio album, released June 23, 2017 on We The Best/Epic. Its 23 tracks, executively produced by Khaled's infant son Asahd, yielded Billboard 200 number one and the singles "I'm the One" and "Wild Thoughts."
Gravediggaz
Gravediggaz were a New York hip-hop supergroup formed in 1993 by Prince Paul, RZA, Poetic, and Frukwan, known for the pioneering horrorcore album 6 Feet Deep.
Grebo (music)
Grebo was a short-lived British alternative rock scene of the Midlands in the late 1980s and early 1990s, mixing punk, hip hop, and electronic dance grooves.
Green (R.E.M. album)
Green (1988) is R.E.M.'s sixth studio album and first for Warner Bros., produced by Scott Litt. Released on US Election Day, it went double platinum, peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard 200, and featured instrument-swapping and the singles Stand, Orange Crush, and Pop Song 89.
Green Onions
"Green Onions" (1962) is a twelve-bar blues instrumental by Booker T. & the M.G.'s, recorded at Stax in Memphis and first issued as the B-side of "Behave Yourself." It topped the U.S. R&B chart for four weeks, hit No. 3 on the Hot 100, and became Stax's first chart-topping hit.
Greg K.
Greg K. (Gregory David Kriesel, born 1965) is the American bassist who co-founded The Offspring in 1984 and played on every album until his 2018 departure, followed by a partnership lawsuit against Dexter Holland and Noodles settled in 2023.
Gregg Rolie
Gregg Rolie (born 1947, Seattle) is an American keyboardist and singer, founding member and original lead vocalist of both Santana and Journey, a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee (1998, 2017), later of The Storm, Abraxas Pool, and Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band.
Grindcore
Grindcore: extreme metal subgenre from mid-1980s Britain, fusing hardcore punk and thrash/death metal into very short blast-beat songs. Founded around Napalm Death's Scum (1987); known for microsongs like You Suffer and radical-left lyrics.
Groupie
Groupie: a devoted fan who follows a singer, band, or celebrity to meet them; coined 1967 in rock culture, popularized by Rolling Stone's 1969 issue, applied mostly to young women, also a graph-theory term.
Grunge
Grunge, also known as the Seattle sound, is a rock genre that arose in the Pacific Northwest in the mid-1980s, blending heavy metal and punk around the Sub Pop label.
Grungegaze
Grungegaze, also called dreamo, is a loosely defined rock genre that mixes grunge with the dreamy sound of shoegaze, applied mostly to alternative rock bands that emerged after 2018.
Gustavo Cerati
Gustavo Cerati (Gustavo Adrián Cerati Clarke) was an Argentine singer and songwriter, frontman of Soda Stereo, the most influential rock en español band of the 1980s and early 1990s.
Hackney Diamonds
Hackney Diamonds (2023) is the Rolling Stones' 24th studio album, their first of original material since A Bigger Bang (2005), produced by Andrew Watt, featuring Charlie Watts on two tracks, a UK number 1 and Grammy Best Rock Album winner.