As you may have noticed, there was still a key element missing..well..apart from the whole electric and arena and so forth. Music to this point was of and by the people as well as for them. Granted Pope Gregory had tooled the vocals ( as well as telling them what they could not eat on fast days.) But for the most part who wrote a song had almost nothing to do with the song itself.

This slowly began to change. Firt to test the barrier was Marvin de Jagger, who wrote a simple prerock ditty about the grandeur of Mary. Alas, he was unaware she had been executed the week before. His subsequent decapitation for writing the song led a rather dark dimension to the term one hit wonder.

Next up was JS Bach. JS (Johan Sebastian was a bit long when you were one of 8 children) was a hotshot keyboard player (organ) who wrote his own tunes,got into fights and fell in love with his young 2nd cousin, just like many later rock and rollers. He fronted for a number of supergroups during the time and set records for songs he would write for his patrons,much like the label writers of the early rock and roll songwriters. Alas like Metallica the money became more important over the years and in the end he was reduced to writing jingles.

And then came the Wolf. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Vain,pretentious,hotheaded but with a keen fashion sense, he would have fit right into a boyband except that A>He was a solo and B>He had talent (not all change is for the better.)Like Bach, keyboards were his instrument of choice. But unlike Bach he was a much more secular writer, bringing in sex and soap and all sorts of other things into his opera. And,on occasion, a fairly decent beat. He also died young enough not to end up making retro tours.

Next up...THE instrument is invented,along with another sound element.