THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO CLASSIC ROCK

Inheriting the people tradition with the protest tune, rock music has been connected with political activism, along with adjustments in social attitudes to race, sexual intercourse, and drug use, and is frequently observed as an expression of youth revolt in opposition to adult consumerism and conformity. Simultaneously, it has been commercially hi

Commentators have traditionally perceived a drop of rock and roll within the late fifties and early sixties. By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in the aircraft crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Tiny Richard to become a preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry along with