When I was growing up I thought rock ‘n’ roll started in 1955. That is probably because everybody on the radio and TV at the time told me it did. By the 1970s, the radio stations were being run by people who had been teenagers in the 1950s. Every generation likes to think it broke new ground. Being one of that first wave of rockers and the first British teenagers to be called teenagers must have felt exhilarating. No wonder there was a year zero feel about it. 1955 was the year when rock ‘n’ roll, teenagers, youth culture, street fashion and everything went with it began. Programmes like 25 Years of Rock and an entire cohort of early boomers told us so.
But, as the saying goes, nothing comes from nowhere. The idea that a new form of music would suddenly burst out of the Deep South was never plausible. It had roots…
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