My dad says Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis started rock n roll Elvis came later
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Hmmm...nobody seems to have mentioned Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly.
Never liked Elvis P at all tbh...but for me it was all changed by The Beatles.
So no idea who the ‘father of rock and roll’ was...didn’t it owe as much to southern American black music as anything/one else...but The Beatles, The Stones (non OAP version), The Kinks and Jimi Hendrix are the four acts I most wish I’d seen live but never did.
Well of course like all these things it depends on the definition, Elvis was the one who brought it mainstream, the icon, the others had their own audiences but weren't well known until after Elvis had made the wider breakthrough and he was the one with the charisma, star quality etc. whatever it is that makes people popular.
It was Bill Hayley and the Comets, obviously.
Except I’d say Chuck Berry
Interestingly (to me anyway), I’m member of a fairly large fb rock lovers group who Recently voted Their all time rock icons, and Chuck
Berry and Little Richard came really high up in the poll, with Buddy Holly and Elvis also well up
For info, Jimi Hendrix came top
I can enjoy music from any category but there is some crap out there, and to think that My ding-a-ling was the only number one Chuck Berry ever had shows that a number one means nothing!
I have to admit though that Depeche Mode, Spandau Ballet, Boyzone and Westlife make me go to the off button!
Queen and especially that God forsaken Bohemian Rhapsody. Clive Dunn didn't fill me with much enthusiasm either.
Lorry drivers, especially those being overtaken by another one, travelling side by side for miles on a dual carriageway, when they could ease off the gas for a couple of seconds, to let them pass quickly.
They call themselves 'knights of the road'.