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Bill Haley and His Comets
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Rock Music and Rock ’n’ Roll
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Rock and Roll Call
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Also Known As rock ’n’ roll

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Key People

The King of Rock and Roll
Elvis Presley
American singer and actor
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney
British musician
Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger
British singer
Forever young
Buddy Holly
American musician
John Lennon, 1968
John Lennon
British musician
Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
American musician
Alan Freed
American radio personality
Rick Wright
British musician
Jocko Henderson
American radio personality
Brian Matthew
British disc jockey
John Entwistle
British musician
Lee Hazlewood
American musician and record producer
Larry Lujack
American disc jockey
Syd Nathan
American record producer
Norman Petty
American musician and producer
Sam Phillips
American record producer
Screaming Lord Sutch
British musician and politician
Little Richard
Little Richard
American musician
George Harrison
George Harrison
British musician
Connie Francis
Connie Francis
American singer

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USA 2006 - 78th Annual Academy Awards. Closeup of giant Oscar statue at the entrance of the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, film movie hollywood
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Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)
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Publicity still of Elvis Presley in Jailhouse Rock in 1957. (cinema, movies, motion pictures, film)
Rock Music and Rock ’n’ Roll
Publicity still of Elvis Presley in Jailhouse Rock in 1957. (cinema, movies, motion pictures, film)
Rock Music and Rock ’n’ Roll
Dancers performing the jitterbug at a juke joint outside Clarksdale, Miss., 1939.
Rock and Roll Call