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Rock n Roll: the early years
Rock n Roll began in the 1950's. It evolved from country music, blues and musical elements from Africa, South America, Ireland and several other countries.
Rock n Roll is a very diverse kind of music. So many things have contributed to it and it has changed so much since it has been created.
Early music used electric guitars, and boogie woogie style piano, drums, and traditional instruments.
Modern rock has gone away from traditional instruments and do not use them. As rock got more popular more artists started performing rock music and ruined its energetic style.
Disc jockeys became powerful people, because they could control the kind of music most people listened to.
In the 1950's Alan Freed, disc jockey, began playing black "rhythm and blues." He
played it for his listeners -
In order to get a bigger audience Freed used the old term "rock n roll," This is now credited by Rock n Roll authorities as the first use of this term.
On March 21, 1952, the first Rock n Roll concert was held at the Cleveland Arena. This first show caused a riot as 30,000 people tried to sit in an arena that could only seat 10,000 people. Still 15,000 people waited on the streets outside.
Most Rock n Roll stars where white but one very important black star was Chuck Berry. He was the first guitarist to reach the charts. He also was the first singer to make black and white both like him without insulting one group.
In 1954 Bill Haley became the first white man to intercept the before all-
These days this record is considered the first really big Rock n Roll hit.
I am very pleased to include this article on the early history of Rock n Roll submitted
by Andrew and friends who wrote this as a school project -
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