The first hard-rock riffs.

The first hard-rock riffs.

Updated: 19 March, 2021. Once, rock music was simple. We had hard-rock, and not-so-hard rock, otherwise called pop. Soft rock was yet to evolve. So, when a certain rock ‘n’ roll themed restaurant first opened its doors in London in 1971, its owners named it “Hard Rock”, cos that’s what the music press in Britain called contemporary music…