The 59 Club is Britain’s original rock ’n’ roll motorcycle club. Born in a London church youth club in 1959, it united bikers ...

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 ...

James Brown made his fair share of enemies during his time at the top, but Elvis Presley was never one of them, and the pair ...

From baseball and television to air conditioning and Coca-Cola, the United States has offered the world no shortage of contributions. Few of those contributions, however, can hold a candle to the one ...

When the modern world was born, Jerry Lee Lewis was there. During that heady spurt of mid-1950s generational rebellion, Lewis and his pompadoured peers invented rock ‘n’ roll and became footloose ...

Rock ’n' roll wasn't invented in Batavia, but it's had a colorful history in these parts for more than half a century. Many famous rockers performed in Batavia during the genre's golden age in the ...

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 ...

Popular expressions of approval often have a vogue and then fade away. Once “swell” reigned supreme. “Anybody will look swell” in a hat from a certain Orlando shop, a 1913 Sentinel ad declared — and ...

Little Richard opened up in a 1990 interview with Rolling Stone about his decades-long career and his place in the music industry and music history. Artists like Sister Rosetta Tharpe have been ...

David Crosby, the brash rock musician who evolved from a baby-faced harmony singer with The Byrds to a mustachioed hippie superstar and an ongoing troubadour in Crosby, Stills, Nash & (sometimes) ...