Early Beatles, early Stones ... The band was formed in the mid-1960s to play blues-based rock & roll. With guitarists Peter ...

"The music that we now call rock and roll started in the 1950s, and in the early 1950s, it was known as rhythm and blues. It was music that was primarily dance music, party music, and it was ...

Among the fans and organizations posting condolences was the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ... career in in London during the early ‘60s among such purist Brit-blues bandleaders as Alexis Korner ...

From hit songs "Hang On, Sloopy" to Hulk Hogan’s theme, guitar hero Rick Derringer left his mark on pop culture.

This magnificent, raunchy exploration of early blues lyrics contains references ... title “How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ’n’ Roll” (2009). To write “Jelly Roll Blues,” he relies ...

Chess was one of the most important labels in the early days of rock n roll. Still, it features some fantastic performances of legendary rockers and blues singers like Mos Def as Chuck Berry ...

which was a genre that was derived from the rhythm and blues and country artists of the decades prior. Rock 'n' roll first became popular in the U.S. in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Dubbed the official home of the blues and the birthplace of rock ’n’ roll, the city in southwest Tennessee has served as the launching pad for countless stars, from Elvis Presley to B.B. King.

Memphis labels itself "The Home of the Blues" and "The Birthplace of Rock 'n' Roll." Is that enough? Perhaps the city should give itself a third shout-out, as "The Center of Soul," in recognition ...