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hard rock

noun as in form of rock and roll

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I checked into my room at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino—a resort famous for exhibiting a Union Jack minidress that had once belonged to Ginger Spice—and quickly realized that, outside of a couple of perfunctory interviews with catatonic teens, I didn’t have much to do with myself.

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The following morning, I returned to the pits of the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and reignited the ritual, without the same luck.

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The English guitarist co-wrote Whitesnake’s ‘Is This Love,’ one of the defining power ballads of late-’80s hard rock.

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Benante compares the band to ’70s female hard rock group the Runaways, hatched and molded by rock Svengali Kim Fowley, which marked the debuts of Joan Jett and Lita Ford.

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The song is the fastest, heaviest track on the band’s eclectic self-titled debut EP, which features music styles that soundtracked Harvey’s adolescence, including ’80s metal, hard rock, and alternative.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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