Cinema’s history of rock’n’roll movies ... Haley’s song “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around The Clock” with inner-city hoodlums. Frank Zappa later recalled his 15-year-old self “jumping ...
“English people can’t play rock ‘n’ roll music.” “What the English thing did was, they just proved that you could make money playing the same old kind of music that you used to play ...
To best illustrate the specific and gloriously gritty “Sun Sound” that helped define the aesthetic of early rock ’n’ roll, I limited my selections to songs ... the 16-year-old alto ...