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Rock & Roll didn't eve exist until the 1950's
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In 1954, a band called Bill Holey and the Comets launched a smash hit called "Rock Around The Clock."
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On July 4th, 1954 Elvis Presley entered Sun Records to record a Christmas song for his mother, Sam Phillip knew he had found what he was looking for.
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Between 1958 and 1960 Elvis joined the US Army and served in Germany.
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On February 3, 1959 a small charter plane took off from an airport in Iowa, USA. On board, on their way to a schedule tour destination, were three of the 1950's great American Rock & Roll stars, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper. Tragically the plane crashed soon after take off, leaviing no survivors.
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During the early to the mid 1960's, in California, siveral American bands were trying to combine two of their state's favorite pstimes, music and surffing. The result was what we now refer to as Surf Music.
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It was the day of peace, love and happiness. It was the age of brightly-painted combi vans and hippies. It was the age of a three day music festival called "woodstock."
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Disco is a style of dance music that was popular from the early 1970's until the mid 1980's.
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Elvis died in 1977 of a drug overdose.
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Michael Jackson ushered in the golden age of pop music in the 1980's. His albun Thriller is still the best-selling of all time.
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In the history of Rock, a specific style of music arose in the early 1980's, which we now refer to as Dance Music.
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In 2009 the world mourned the death of Michael Jackson, one of the most successful and influential popular music identities of all time.
