Charles Edward Anderson Berry
(October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017)
Music pioneer Chuck Berry refined and developed rhythm and
blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive
with songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven"
(1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode"
(1958)
Ed Sullivan talks with Elvis Presley before the show.
(History Channel) – Elvis Presley, at age 21, broke television
records with his first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
on this day in history, Sept. 9, 1956.
Elvis — along with his famous "gyrations" — had been
banned previously by Ed Sullivan from appearing on his
show.
However, after several of his competitors saw massive ratings
when Presley appeared on their shows, Sullivan reconsidered
his ban.
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Charles Hardin Holley – known as Buddy Holly
(September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)
If you took out a map of the United States and traced
a line beginning at New Orleans and running up the
Mississippi River to Memphis, the tip of your finger
would pass through the very birthplace of rock and
roll—a region where nearly every step in its early
development took place and where nearly every
significant contributor to that development was born.
But if the foundation of rock and roll was mostly laid
down within 100 miles of the Mississippi River in the
mid-1950s, the blueprint for what would follow required
the further contributions of a young man born 700 miles
to the west on this day in 1936: Charles Harden Holley.
Writing and performing under the name Buddy Holly,
this Lubbock, Texas, native would have an influence
on rock and roll that would far outlast his tragically
shortened career.
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Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018)
(FOX NEWS) – Aretha Franklin, whose booming vocals and
powerful personal presence made her one of the great
entertainers in global history, became the first woman
inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on this day in
history, Jan. 3, 1987.
"Aretha Franklin was an artist of passion, sophistication
and command, whose recordings remain anthems that
defined soul music," the Rock Hall writes in its biography
of the performer.
She "was only 25 when she clinched the title of Lady Soul
with her unforgettably proud, sexy, candid and confident
1967 version of Otis Redding’s ‘Respect.’"
No 1 best selling album of sixties.
