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"Rock and Roll was born in 1956. In that year, Elvis released Heartbreak Hotel; Chuck Berry sang ""Roll Over Beethoven;"" Little Richard blurred the boundary with ""Tutti Fruitti;"" Janis Martin sang for women with ""Drugstore Rock and Roll;"" while pop music hit the big screen with ""Rock Around the Clock. "" In one year the youth quake went overground. Music journalist Nick Johnstone charts the events of this turning point and the origins of rock and roll, showing how the DNA fused in that one burst of creativity persisted for the next 50 years."

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Nick Johnstone is a music journalist for Mojo Uncut, Melody Maker, and writer. He is the editor of The Melody Maker History of 20th Century Popular Music. He has interviewed all the major names in pop, rock and country including Keith Richards, Lou Reed, Richard Hell, John Cale, Elliott Smith, The Flaming Lips, Ronnie Wood, Ryan Adams, Rickie Lee Jones, and Rod Stewart. He lives in London, England.

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