Following Blackmore's intro, Serbian rocked the city (8)
I believe the answer is:
brisbane
'the city' is the definition.
(Brisbane is an example)
'following blackmore's intro serbian rocked' is the wordplay.
'following' says to put letters next to each other.
'intro' suggests taking the first letters.
'rocked' indicates anagramming the letters.
The first letter of 'blackmore' is 'b'.
'serbian' with letters rearranged gives 'risbane'.
'b' next to 'risbane' is 'BRISBANE'.
(Other definitions for brisbane that I've seen before include "State capital of Queensland" , "test venue" , "Australian city" , "There be bairns in Australia" , "City in Queensland" .)