The word 'rocker' is a correct and common term in written English.
It can be used to describe a type of chair or seat that has a curved bottom and can rock back and forth. It can also be used to describe a person who enjoys rock music or is a member of a rock band. Example: The new nursery had a comfortable glider and a wooden rocker for the parents to relax in while rocking their baby to sleep. Example: The lead singer of the band was a talented rocker with an energetic stage presence.
Pop culture, lest we forget, initially grew out of the postwar affluence that allowed working-class teenagers to express themselves though choice – the music they listened to, the clothes they wore, the styles and movements they spawned, whether mod, rocker or hippy – but it was also propelled by the progressive changes to educational access that began with the Education Act of 1944.
Saturday will see Jackson Browne, Seasick Steve and Scissor Sisters perform before Muse take to the stage, while Sunday will feature hard rocker Slash, Ray Davies and Jack Johnson before Faithless whip up the crowd in preparation for soul legend Stevie Wonder.
He also spoke about his friendship with Armstrong – "an awesome person and, as far as I'm concerned, a punk rocker" – with whom he "trash talks" about their cycling rivalry.
The latest attempt to decode the feminist punk rocker lands in April, 21 years after his suicide.
Amateur punk rocker Vic Garbage, who was a teenage punk rocker in the 70s, celebrated with a punk gig in Bolton.
"The idea of the long-haired, white male rocker is moving further into the past," says Janet. "It's great for my daughter to see Beyoncé and Taylor Swift, women that are in charge of their own careers, writing songs from their own perspective and taking people to task," adds Corin.
For example, Nick Cave and fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis have been spotted eating lunch here, while noise-rocker Bradford Cox (vocalist for Deerhunter) and instrumental experimentalists Explosions in the Sky have also been seen loitering in fashionably cool repose.
Yet the rocker-cum-campaigner helped to insert a far-reaching change into the legislation they were drafting.
Although it is proud of having converted Cat Stevens, a British folk-rocker now known as Yusuf Islam, to the faith, Tablighi has no ledgers, no office holders, no funds and no orthodox means of public relations, claims Malik Mumtaz, one of its elders.
IT IS less than six months since glam-rocker Justin Hawkins put away his skin-tight lycra catsuit and sparkly platform boots for a spell in rehab.
That may not have been quite what Lincoln meant, though the belief in man's improvability is as uplifting in this magisterial work as it was in the president's speech.The notion that mankind has, as Ian Dury, a punk-rocker, once put it, "reasons to be cheerful", also lies at the heart of Robert Muchembled's quirkier work, "A History of Violence".
