And although they forged a career as one of the best-selling rock bands in history, the only thing rock 'n' roll about them is their music -- no drug overdoses, no sex scandals, no trashing of hotel rooms.
But at the Treasury, where they dine on the raw red meat of harsh financial reality, they were under no illusion that the only realistic option for the Rock was for it to be sold to a proper bank or financial investor.
Since the dawn of rock n roll, the only performers on similar footing are the Beatles, who like Elvis, not only released hit record after hit record, literally caused crowds to swoon and set concert records everywhere they went, but also made movies, lots of movies.
This gives the dinosaur-killing rock only 15 million years to move into a suitable place to be flung out of the main belt and to travel to Earth in time for the impact 65 million years ago.
The only musical style missing is heavy rock because Eavis does not want the safety headaches brought by moshing and crowd-surfing.
My cabin attendant brings breakfast as we emerge onto the 56-squaremile wilderness that is Rannoch Moor, a raging sea of bog and rock that only the railway dares to cross.
The only thing that really ties this in with rock videos for me is the fact that thank God I don't have to lip-sync myself in this thing.
The only relatively new artists to successfully cross over from the rock and alternative rock charts to the Hot 100 have been Mumford and Sons and Foster the People, and the ubiquitous genre-buster Adele has gone the other direction.
In the mid-sixties, when the BBC was still monopolizing radio in Great Britain, a rogue operator, broadcasting from a ship anchored in the North Sea, plays rock to a country that could only hear the Beatles and the Stones live or by going to a record store.
The entire city of Fort Worth sits over a gas dense layer of black rock called the Barnett Shale that only recently became possible to access.
These three mild suburban guys strike it rich only after Rock assumes the identity of a jailed racketeer and dubs his group CB4 (for Cell Block Four).
Gravity pulled the water into New Orleans streets and kept it diving into basements and subbasements, stopping only when it reached the most solid rock at the lowest levels beneath the city.
If free soloing (using only rock shoes, without the protection of a rope) is the purest form of climbing, then aid soloing is the slowest, most cumbersome kind one can imagine, mixing, as it does, terror and tedium.
At 277 miles long and more than a mile deep, its intricate formations are matched only by the stunning striation of the rock, and by the knowledge that the entire thing was carved out by the Colorado River on a 5-million-year mission.
Leo Houlding, for example, parachuted into Baffin Island in the Arctic Circle, then spent weeks climbing an iced-up rock tower called Mount Asgard, only to leap from the top in a wingsuit.
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Asked about the long term future for the Northern Rock, and whether or not it would remain independent, he said only that the board of directors would review all options in due course.
The only sound to be heard was the thwack-thwack-thwack of limestone water dripping onto rock.
The C330 will sport 4 megapixels and rock the same Retinar lens as in the C360, but comes with only 16MB internal memory and a 1.5-inch LCD.
Sean presents other programmes on BBC Radio Lancashire including Friday Night at Ten which is the only programme on your radio that plays classic and contemporary rock music with such aplomb.
In his Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus likens our absurd existence to the fate of the Greek mythological figure, whose task was to push a rock up a mountain, watch it roll down, only to begin again, fully aware of the futility of his condition.
By contrast, the loudest rock concert on record, by The Who, blasted only 126 decibels.
Cheshire's Winsford salt mine, the biggest supplier of rock salt in England, has said it only has a few days' supply of surface salt left.
Last year, a bill to prohibit teacher strikes was introduced in the state legislature by Todd Rock and 28 co-sponsors, only to be sidelined thanks to union opposition.
Jack Bradley Cave has only 15 milligrams of carbon per liter of water in the rock, the equivalent of 15 grains of sugar dissolved in a liter of water.
So it was perhaps only a matter of time before the boy wizard zapped up an actual rock star.
He started with Shania Twain's Rock This Country, but it only reminded people that the country isn't rocking for him.
C. through a Little Rock firm he owned, but the firm had been incorporated only 10 days when its name appeared on the check.
The Rock Band network has been running in a private, invitation-only testing mode since September.
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