Various, America, Juice Newton, Billy Squier, Steve Miller Band, Missing Persons, The Motels, Little River Band, The Beatles, Missing Persons, Billy Squier, Sheriff, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Plasmatics

Seattle Grunge

Heavy riffs played by people raised on punk, recorded cheap in the Pacific Northwest and then sold worldwide.

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.