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Word: rocked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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When musicologists of the future start rummaging through the LP artifacts of the '60s, they will be able to discern several distinct phases in the stylistic evolution of the Beatles. Rubber Soul (1966) was the last album of their archaic period, blending the best kind of rock naivete with a mastery of simple forms. Sgt. Pepper (1967) represents the Beatles at their classic moment, fusing the pop spirit and an astoundingly eclectic range of sounds into a harrowing but harmonious whole. Their double-disk album called simply The Beatles, which has just been released in the U.S.,* may well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recordings: The Mannerist Phase | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

Road?, which lampoons raunch-rock, reads in full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recordings: The Mannerist Phase | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

Every minute of that show was like the last three seconds of the Harvard-Yale game. Or whatever moment in your life has ever turned you on to the point of shouting. As a rock and roll expatriate, I can remember many such moments: hearing Bill Haley screaming "Rock Around the Clock," in a movie theater; hearing Ray Charles, live at El Monte Legion Stadium, after singing ten minutes of "What...

Author: By John Leone, | Title: The King Revealed | 12/5/1968 | See Source »

...WARDEN threw a party in the county jail." Lieber-Stoller. Mike and Jerry. Then practically made Elvis. So many songs: "Hound Dog," "Heartbreak Hotel," "Little Egypt," on and on and on. "Jailhouse Rock," according to Peter Hayes, who anyone who is at all hip in Cambridge should know, or at least heard of, says: 'Jailhouse Rock' is the greatest song ever written." It's true...

Author: By John Leone, | Title: The King Revealed | 12/5/1968 | See Source »

Come on and do the jailhouse rock with...

Author: By John Leone, | Title: The King Revealed | 12/5/1968 | See Source »

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