Located in Cleveland, Ohio, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been inducting people since 1986. The first ceremony inducted 16 people, including Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and The Everly Brothers.
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Rock and Roll History
Rock and roll sprouted from a variety of influences, fertilized by the soil of Cuban Jazz, watered by the Blues, and fed by a European immigrant influence. As America has changed over the decades, rock has changed with it and adapted to the many events and moods of history.
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It began as a slow transformation of jazzy blues, fusing traditional folk, country, and gospel, creating an entirely new genre of music which evolved rapidly away from its early roots.
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Bill Haley was one of the biggest names in American Rock music for many years. He is the first to popularize the art from in the early 1950’s with his group “Bill Haley & His Comets” and their smash hit song, “Rock Around The Clock”.
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Gen X and Gen Y switch on their iPods and listen to their latest downloads. In the baby boomer period, transistor radios were the ‘iPods’ when almost everyone predictably listened to The Beatles and The Motown Sound. The music and entertainment landscape of the yesteryear’s are not only about these two singing sensations, as the boomer music industry culminated in the rise of Elvis Presley when ‘Rock and Roll’ was the beat boomers listened to.
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