Rock & Roll

Its effects on our culture
Many Rock historians have a difference in opinion on who really started the Rock movement. Some say that it was absolutely Elvis Presley. While other historians say that the Beatles truly started the revolution. When I think of the beginning of Rock and Roll the following names come up: Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and Bill Haley. Yes, it is true that Chuck Berry seems to be the most well renowned artist in that list for starting the Rock revolution but who really came up with the idea. Of course Chuck Berry was the one doing the actual guitar playing and ripping out all of those well known riffs in AJohnny Be Good,@ but it was Johnnie Johnson who actually came up with the idea to play those types of guitar riffs. Johnson was born in West Virginia and started playing the piano at the age of 5. He amazed his family each time he sat down to play. A lot of Johnson=s musical influence came from jazz bands and musicians such ast Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson. Johnson played a radio gig at the age of and joined ABlue Rhythmn Swingsters@ shortly after and the rest is history.
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