Subsequently, the blues became increasingly intertwined with rock’n’roll, with The Yardbirds backing ... and they play it – so bad.” As black music began to cross over and reach wider ...

Jack White exaggerated only a little when he sang that a seven-nation army couldn’t hold him back Thursday at the Salt Shed.

But according to biographer Jeff Apter, Perkins was the most influential in the development of rock ‘n’ roll ...

Cleveland’s story as an early torchbearer of rhythm and blues begins in the late 1940s when this new genre of pulsating, ...

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Lizzo celebrated the news on social media, captioning a March 24 Instagram post, “Black people made rock n roll yeaaaah ... appeal to rock and rhythm and blues audiences.

"Rock Around the Clock" was the first time rock 'n' roll had ever been featured in a major Hollywood soundtrack. Glenn Ford ...