The exact date that rock came into existence is of course not recorded, as the music evolved. ![]() It became the sound track of a generation. In addition Amplification took the guitar from being just another rhythm instrument to the forefront of music making.Įarly superstar performers were blues guys like Jimmy Rodgers, Robert Johnson and Lead Belly, followed by popular rockers Bill Haley, Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly who took the old songs from the cotton fields and inner cities in the US and turned them into rock and roll arrangements. It can be argued that Cyberspace and Globalization where direct results from a music culture that found a global audience. As such it became a force that drove the culture that transformed the world. ![]() Rock and Roll as a music genre did not really arrive on the scene until the late 1940s, early 1950s, along with the post World War II baby boomer generation. The listings have a link to a tribute page with data of their life and accomplishments. But then in recent years, with many of our early rock heroes in their late sixties and early seventies, the numbers are way up. ![]() Obviously in the early years of rock and roll the “death toll” among legends was low – for 1961 I couldn’t even find a listing. On this page you will find in chronological order, starting with the first rock and roll pioneers in the 1930s and the years and dates they left us for that huge concert stage in the sky.
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