If you’re a music lover, you’ve probably heard of Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. This legendary recording studio is known ...

The Who are true rock and roll trailblazers, and their influence is felt particularly strongly in the work of Bruce Springsteen, according to Pete Townshend.

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The legacy of pioneering deejay Alan Freed is still seen and heard in the city where he coined “Rock and Roll” while working in WJW radio in 1951. “Chapter one page one is ...

While John Lennon had transcended standard rock and roll in many respects, he knew that nothing could replace the originators ...

On this day (July 9) in 1955, “Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley & His Comets became the first rock and roll song to top the Billboard Hot 100. More than a huge hit for Haley, the song changed the ...

Philadelphia was home to some of rock 'n' roll's biggest stars and iconic sounds leading up to the 1970s, with Bill Haley helping bring the genre to mainstream America and Dick Clark's "American ...

Chuck Berry’s influence on Lennon, and The Beatles, was undeniable. Take “Come Together,” the song borrows the lyric “Here ...

We do not know anything but the basics of his years in Detroit: born here, attended Northwestern High, sang some doo-wop. We do know that Dave "Baby" Cortez had a groundbreaking No. 1 hit in the early ...

Rock music as we know it today sounded nothing like the rock and roll of the 1960s and early 1960s. It was a very different time, and quite a few of the biggest rock and roll songs from that era are ...

LOS ANGELES — The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has inducted its 2025 class of music giants. The ceremony held Saturday at Los ...