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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They say that rock 'n' roll is dead." He motioned about the audience. "Some wake--or maybe it's just sustained rigor mortis...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: We Shall Survive | 11/19/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: We Shall Survive | 11/19/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: We Shall Survive | 11/19/1957 | See Source »

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...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: We Shall Survive | 11/19/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: We Shall Survive | 11/19/1957 | See Source »

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