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a. 1 As tough, hard, or inflexible as a piece of rock. 2 (context bodybuilding English) With muscles developed and toned to a high degree, especially the muscles of the abdomen. 3 (context figuratively English) Having a very fully erect and stiff penis 4 (context figuratively English) With strongly held beliefs and opinions, deep conviction. alt. 1 As tough, hard, or inflexible as a piece of rock. 2 (context bodybuilding English) With muscles developed and toned to a high degree, especially the muscles of the abdomen. 3 (context figuratively English) Having a very fully erect and stiff penis 4 (context figuratively English) With strongly held beliefs and opinions, deep conviction.
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"Rock Hard" is a single by the Beastie Boys, released by Def Jam Records on 12" in 1984. The song, and the accompanying songs on the 12", feature the band's first major label rap effort.
The track contains samples from the AC/DC song " Back in Black", which was used without obtaining legal permission - thereby causing the record to be promptly withdrawn. Later, when the group planned to include the out-of-print song on their 1999 compilation, Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds of Science, AC/DC refused to allow the sample to be used. Mike D spoke to AC/DC's Malcolm Young personally on the phone when their lawyers refused to clear the sample, and later said that "AC/DC could not get with the sample concept. They were just like, 'Nothing against you guys, but we just don't endorse sampling.'" Ad-Rock then added "So we told them that we don't endorse people playing guitars."
The cover design is also famous for now being the official Def Jam records logo for vinyl releases; to this day, vinyl singles released by Def Jam have this design.
Long removed from print, it was considered a rare collector's item until Def Jam reissued the single in Europe in 2007.
Rock Hard is the seventh solo studio album by the American rock singer-songwriter and bass guitarist Suzi Quatro. It was originally released in October 1980, and was her first and only release by the record label, Dreamland. The album was recorded over a period of one month in 1980, at United Western Studios, in Hollywood. It features three prolific guest backing vocalists, including Paul Delph, Michael Des Barres, and Andrea Robinson. It is notably her last album to chart anywhere for twenty-six years, until she released Back to the Drive, in 2006. The album featured the songs "Rock Hard", " Glad All Over", and "Lipstick" which were all released as singles. The aforementioned title track was a commercial success, peaking at Number 9 in Australia, but only peaked at #68 in the UK, while "Lipstick" was only a moderate success peaking at #46 in Australia, and at #51 in US. "Glad All Over", a cover version of a song originally by The Dave Clark Five, unlike the other singles was the only one to chart in Belgium, peaking at #25.
On release, the album was received favorably by the majority of music critics, with many critics claiming it to be her best album of the 1980s. However, it was still Quatro's poorest selling studio album up to that point in the US, and Norway.
The album was re-released in 2012, and was the first of several remastered reissues by Cherry Red Records on Compact Disc. Cherry Red have since released other Quatro remasters, as well as releasing her latest studio album, In the Spotlight.
The Rock Hard (also RockHard) magazine is a metal and hard rock magazine from Dortmund, Germany, with subsidiaries in various countries worldwide, including France, Spain, Brazil/ Portugal, Italy and Greece. Founded by Holger Stratmann it is published since 1983 in more than 300 editions (Germany alone), since 1989 in monthly regular. Next to the German edition of the Metal Hammer it is the leading magazine for heavy music in Germany. German news magazine Der Spiegel called it the " Zentralorgan" ("Central organ") of the heavy metal fans in Germany, others dubbed it a "Kultzeitschrift" ("cult magazine"). Since 1990 the magazine employees are also organizing the Rock Hard Festival, which is held - annually in Gelsenkirchen since 2003 - on the pentecost weekend. The festival is streamed by news magazine Spiegel online, the internet edition of Der Spiegel and the WDR television under the Rockpalast label. The Rock Hard magazine is independent from major media companies. Its slogan is "critical, competent, independent". The magazine contains reports, interviews, specials, reviews, news and all other content regarding hard rock and heavy metal music.
Editor-in-chief of the Rock Hard magazine was since 1990 Götz Kühnemund. In January 2014 he had to leave the magazine with some other editors due to financial needs and creative differences with the magazine's founder and publisher Holger Stratmann. Kühnemund, who is a well known figure not only in the German heavy metal scene, was known for his efforts to preserve what he called the "real heavy metal" instead of going more commercial respectively opening the magazine for influences from different metal substyles. Kühnemund's leave was compared with "the pope leaving the church". Kühnemund then founded a new magazine called Deaf Forever. Boris Kaiser and Michael Rensen became the new editors-in-chief in a dual leadership.
The Rock Hard magazine has an own music streaming channel on the internet video portal Putpat.tv. It also publishes an own mobile app in addition to the magazine which is available on iTunes and Google Play. This comes with the development of sinking number of sold copies of the magazine which is affecting all music magazines in Germany within the last years which forced also the Rock Hard magazine to "concentrate on the core business" and use the online sector for marketing by offering additional services.