The Beatles – Rubber Soul
If A Hard Day’s Night proved The Beatles were exceptional songwriters, Rubber Soul proved they were exceptional album artists. Released at the end of…
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– Rock N Roll (Begining)
The Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night
By the summer of 1964, Beatlemania had become a worldwide phenomenon. The Beatles were no longer simply a successful British band—they were the biggest…
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Jerry Lee Lewis – Live at the Star-Club, Hamburg
If someone wanted to understand why Jerry Lee Lewis earned the nickname “The Killer,” there may be no better place to start than Live…
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The Beatles – With The Beatles
Success can be a difficult thing to follow, but The Beatles barely paused long enough to acknowledge it. Just eight months after releasing their…
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Elvis Presley – Elvis Is Back!
Military service temporarily interrupted Elvis Presley’s meteoric rise to superstardom, but it did nothing to diminish his talent. When he returned to the recording…
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Ray Charles – The Genius of Ray Charles
By 1959, Ray Charles had already transformed rhythm and blues with a string of groundbreaking hits that blended gospel, blues, jazz, and country into…
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Fats Domino – This Is Fats
Few artists helped shape the sound of early rock and roll as profoundly—or as effortlessly—as Fats Domino. While some of his contemporaries built their…
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Little Richard – Here’s Little Richard
If rock and roll had a heartbeat in the mid-1950s, it was probably pounding somewhere inside Here’s Little Richard. Released in 1957, this explosive…
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The Crickets – The Chirping Crickets
When people think of the birth of rock and roll, names like Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and Chuck Berry usually dominate the conversation. Yet…
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Elvis Presley – Elvis Presley
When Elvis Presley was released in March 1956, popular music was in the middle of a revolution. Rock and roll was still in its…
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