to ask for musicians who changed music?

[Carmana]

DSD (7) and I have been watching music videos for the past 20 mins.

So far I've showed her Elvis, Queen, MJ, Aretha Franklin and The Beatles.

Can anyone name a few more for me? I've drawn a blank!

More controversially, Stock Aitken Waterman.

From the Beatles & Stones through to the 80s, most mainstream artists wrote their own songs. SAW changed all that. They went back to the Phil Spector model where the writers and producers were the real creative talents, and the singers were interchangeable puppets who sang what they were told to sing. SAW made pop stars out of models, teenage Aussie soap actors and even the office teaboy (Rick Astley).

Kurt Cobain
David Bowie
Phil Spector
Elvis Presley

Sam Cooke
Aretha Franklin
Mamas and Paper
The Doors
Mini Hendrix
Janis Joplin (My DS loves Mercedes Benz)
Pink Floyd
The Who
The Jam
Eurythmics
The Stone Roses

Elvis Presley
Johnny Cash
Bb king
Prince
Michael Jackson
Aretha Franklin
Carol King
Tina Turner
Nina Simone
Jimmy Hendrix
Bob Marley
Dolly Parton

Oh and The Beatles

Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith

Ooooh excellent job guys we are going to have SO MUCH fun with these tomorrow. Starting with Nina Simone 😍

Kate Bush

Did all these suggestions change music or are people just listing favourites?

I'd agree with:

Prince
David Bowie
Nirvana
Madonna
Also, yes, the Spice Girls

And I'm not sure if I think they changed music but ABBA are worth a shout!

Glenn Miller — he arranged pieces in a different way and got a whole new sound out of his orchestra.

New York Dolls
Stax and Motown - do a comparison and see which your dd prefers (I'm with Stax).
Sugarhill Gang esp. Rappers Delight
Blondie
Jelly Roll Morton

The Fall

Gil Scott-Heron
John Coltrane

Bach
Beethoven
Stravinsky (Rite of Spring is a must)
Schoenberg

Black Sabbath

Gustav Holst.
Andrew Lloyd Webber.
John Williams.
Nobuo Uematsu.
Linkin Park.
Black Sabbath.
PSY.
Tiesto.

And not a musician, but Thomas Edison changed music forever when he invented the phonograph.

The Monkees/Mike Nesmith solo stuff

Thelonious Monk

Miles Davis

Link Wray, Chuck Berry, maybe even Fats Waller.

Have I got to justify it?

Link Wray was not the best guitarist but he was the first rock guitarist.

Chuck Berry’s early records, stage performances and prodigious songwriting were just... prodigious! Listen to the piano on a 1950s Berry record.

Leonard Cohen

Linkin Park

Prince 💜

Charles Bradley
Fleetwood Mac
Bing Crosby
Vera Lynn
Coltrane