Song · Lenny Kravitz
“Rock-N-Roll Is Dead” by Lenny Kravitz
“Rock-N-Roll Is Dead” by Lenny Kravitz appears on 12 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 1995 and 2005. Its best result is #71 on the WDRE Top 103.9 Songs of 1995. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #187 alternative song of 1995 and #2,998 alternative song of all time.
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Virgin sent out "Rock and Roll Is Dead" in August 1995 as the first single from Circus, Lenny Kravitz's fourth album. He wrote it and produced it himself, and it's a swaggering slab of hard rock under a title that reads like a dare.
It went top 20 in Canada, Finland, New Zealand and Spain, but at home it stalled at number 75 on the Billboard Hot 100. It still earned Kravitz a Grammy nomination for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance in 1996. Ruvén Afanador directed the video from storyboards by Andrew Trovaioli, showing Kravitz and his band in performance alongside shots of him set against art-inspired backdrops.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 95 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1995 | 101 |
| 1995 | 102 | 103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL | The Buzz Top 103 Alternative Songs of '95 | 103 |
| 1995 | 78 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 95 Songs of 1995 | 95 |
| 1995 | 71 | WDRE Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA | WDRE Top 103.9 Songs of 1995 | 104 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1388 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1388 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1389 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1388 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2002 | 1853 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 1374 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 1374 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1373 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
Also listed as: Rock n' Roll is Dead; Rock and Roll is Dead; Rock And Roll Is Dead; Rock-n-roll Is Dead; Rock and Roll Is Dead.
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