Where would classic rock music be without the 1950s? That was the decade when the genre was forming, when it was just beginning to understand the power of what it could do and what it could be.

The 1950s saw rock music explode on a global scale. The genre was just starting to take shape, and artists were figuring out where they fit in those confines. While many simply followed the leader, ...

Readers who attended, heard about or wished they were at any of the evolutionary rock concerts of the 1950s through 1985 will be eager to get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of what really went into the ...

During a 1968 interview with Rolling Stone, Townshend discussed the sort of rock songs he enjoyed. “The rock ‘n’ roll songs I like, of course, are songs like ‘Summertime Blues,’ man that’s beautiful,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

From Open Culture: “For sixty years, conventional wisdom has told us that women generally did not perform rock and roll during the 1950s,” writes Leah Branstetter, Ph.D. candidate in musicology at ...