On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I wouldn't specifically say rock n' roll is dead, but I don't see a lot of charismatic performers in the way of new blood who are edgy and dangerous on stage, like Marilyn Manson, who you never quite know if he's going to make it through his own show.
If rock & roll is dead and gone, man, I am missing out on it.
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
Rock n' roll seems like it's faded away sometimes, but it will never die.
There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.
Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.
Rock is periodically pronounced dead by clear rock critics - killed by world music, or by hip-hop, or electronica, or the Backstreet Boys. But if you wait a year, it comes back to life.
Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.