Rock ‘n’ roll seemed to some like it emerged fully formed in the 1950s, as artists became superstars overnight on the strength of a magnetic single or two. In actuality, the music had been slowly ...

We recently looked at five standout songs recorded in the 1950s that were largely overshadowed by covers that came later. Of course, there weren’t only five songs that fit that description. One of the ...

A resolute fan of 1950s rock and roll, he never got along with hard rock — despite his love for the guitarist who paved the ...

AUSTIN, Texas — In the late 1950s, radio, TV and the record labels discovered teenagers had money to spend and they spent a lot of it on rock 'n' roll records. Singers barely out of their teens ...

After Elvis Presley joined the Army in 1958 but before the British Invasion of 1964, there was a forgotten period in American music. Here, rock and roll existed in a liminal space. These few years ...

Musician John Mayall, often referred to the “godfather of the British blues,” whose bands of the late ’60s and early ‘70s featured some of the most notable rock instrumentalists of the era, died ...