Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some people wish it were dead," he said. He pointed out the skeptics in the crowd, sitting like silent gods on the periphery--and cupping their hands to whisper clever comments to camel-haired coats from Radcliffe and B.U. "Filter-tip cigarettes and buttondown brains," said the Spirit of Rock 'n' Roll. "They come as a form of social entertainment...
...first thing you've got to understand," said the Spirit, "is that rock 'n' roll's more acrobatics than art." Chuck Berry, straddling an electric guitar, pounced about the stage with musical spasticity...
Chuck Berry was succeeded by Eddie Cochrane, a little man with a big guitar. The Spirit of Rock 'n' Roll lit a cigarillo. "Too many people stereotype us--pleated peg pants and blue suede shoes; a calypso shirt and a black leather jacket--and axle grease to part our hair. Not true...
...Rock 'n' roll is part of this generation," said the little man. "We were born with an atom bomb instead of a spoon in our mouth. And our whole life is the sustained debauchery of a spitting...
...Spirit of Rock 'n' Roll continued, undeterred. First they said it was calypso. Then Hawaiian music. Now, what? All of them were supposed to replace us. Nothing...