Rock and roll is a style of popular broad-ranging music, known throughout the world. Chile's most famous rock band is undoubtedly La Ley. The roots of Chilean rock go back to La Nueva Ola Chilena, which refers to the stars of the 1950s and 1960s. These included Alan y sus Bates, Los Rockets, Buddy Richard, Jose Alfredo Fuentes and Los Ramblers. After this period, Chilean rock declined until the 1980s, when the scene became more closely associated with politics, especially opposition to Augusto Pinochet. The most well-known band from this period was Los Prisioneros. Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... La Ley (Spanish, The Law) is a Chilean rock band, formed in Santiago by Luciano Andrés Rojas and Luis Alberto Cuevas Olmedo with Archi Frugone, Mauricio Clavera and Andrés Bobe. ... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning... The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 60s and 70s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte[1] (born November 25, 1915) was head of the military government that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. ... Los Prisioneros Grandes Exitos Album Cover Los Prisioneros is a Spanish Rock band from Chile formed in 1984. ...

More modern bands include La Ley, Lucybell, Los Tres, Tiro de Gracia, Sinergia, Los Bunkers, Los Prisioneros, Dracma, Santo Barrio, Javiera y los Imposibles, Mamma Soul, Gondwana, Chancho en Piedra and Los Tetas. Los Tres was one of the most famous and important bands in the Chilean nineties culture. ... Los Prisioneros Grandes Exitos Album Cover Los Prisioneros is a Spanish Rock band from Chile formed in 1984. ...

Since the 1970s, Chile has had a thriving progressive rock scene that includes such bands as Congreso and Los Jaivas. The progressive rock band Yes performing in 1977. ... Los Jaivas is a Chilean folk/rock band consisting of: Eduardo Alquinta, Gato Juanita Parra (replacing Gabriel Parra) Mario Mutis Eduardo Parra and Claudio Parra They appeared in Chilean music in 1963 as a progressive-rock-andino group, mixing rock with South American ancestral music. ...