When the modern world was born, Jerry Lee Lewis was there. During that heady spurt of mid-1950s generational rebellion, Lewis and his pompadoured peers invented rock ‘n’ roll and became footloose ...

The 1950s exploded with the vibrant energy of rock ‘n’ roll and a youthful spirit of rebellion, marking a significant departure from the austerity of wartime and ushering in an era of unprecedented ...

Rock ‘n’ roll seemed to some like it emerged fully formed in the 1950s, as artists became superstars overnight on the strength of a magnetic single or two. In actuality, the music had been slowly ...

In the spring of 1954, when the nation’s top record was Perry Como’s “Wanted” and the top album was the soundtrack from the movie The Glenn Miller Story, a new musical style was germinating. Bill ...

The decade of the 1950s was the salad days for rock ‘n’ roll. Everything was new, green. At the time, the musical movement was just a glimmer in the early adopters’ minds. Bands like the Beatles and ...

We recently looked at five standout songs recorded in the 1950s that were largely overshadowed by covers that came later. Of ...

AUSTIN, Texas — In the late 1950s, radio, TV and the record labels discovered teenagers had money to spend and they spent a lot of it on rock 'n' roll records. Singers barely out of their teens ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — The ashes of Alan Freed, a seminal figure in the history of modern music, have found a home in Cleveland, where Freed coined the term rock ‘n’ roll and organized what’s considered the ...

Editor’s Note: JEREMY LARNER graduated from Brandeis University with the class of 1958 and was a WoodrowWilson National Fellow at the University of California. His first novel, Drive, He Said, has won ...