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The 64 pages that link to Rock and roll, each with the reason it gives.

• Elvis PresleyNarrower topic: Presley’s popularity helped bring the emerging genre to a mass audience.

• MotownNarrower topic: Motown’s pop-oriented soul grew within the broader transformation of postwar popular music.

• RockabillyNarrower topic: Rockabilly became one of the early forms through which rock and roll reached a broad audience.

• Chuck BerryNarrower topic: Berry became one of the musicians who established the genre’s sound and songwriting conventions.

• Brill BuildingNarrower topic: The Brill Building scene supplied songs to the expanding postwar rock-and-roll market.

• Doo-wopNarrower topic: Doo-wop became one of rock and roll's major vocal-group forms during the genre's rise.

• Mick JaggerNarrower topic: Jagger’s career illustrates how rock and roll developed into a durable global performance culture.

• Hard rockNarrower topic: Hard rock developed from rock and roll’s amplified bands and rhythmic drive.

• Garage rockNarrower topic: Its compact songs and driving rhythms supplied garage rock’s basic musical vocabulary.

• Chess RecordsNarrower topic: Chess releases by artists such as Chuck Berry helped shape the genre’s early sound.

• Little RichardNarrower topic: Richard's recordings helped establish the genre's sound, performance style, and cultural reach.

• Yé-yéNarrower topic: Yé-yé grew partly from French performers’ adoption of this American-led musical style.

• MerseybeatNarrower topic: Its energetic rhythms and guitar sound supplied a major foundation for Merseybeat.

• Pop rockNarrower topic: Its early guitar-led songs helped establish the sound pop rock later softened and polished.

• Alan FreedNarrower topic: Freed helped establish this music as a national youth phenomenon.

• Rock bandNarrower topic: Its early guitar-led groups helped establish the rock band’s basic format.

• Adriano CelentanoNarrower topic: American rock and roll supplied the sound and performance model Celentano adapted in Italy.

• Bobby DarinNarrower topic: Darin first became famous through energetic rock-and-roll songs.

• Lou ReedNarrower topic: Reed transformed rock and roll’s song forms with dissonance and unsparing lyrics.

• Jerry Lee LewisNarrower topic: Lewis’s career crossed the boundary between early rock-and-roll fame and later country success.

• Johnny B. GoodeNarrower topic: The song condenses the genre’s guitar-led sound and youthful momentum.

• Ritchie ValensNarrower topic: Valens recast a traditional melody within this emerging genre’s sound and market.

• Sister Rosetta TharpeNarrower topic: Tharpe’s sound helped establish musical elements later central to rock and roll.

• Willie DixonNarrower topic: Dixon’s songs and blues arrangements became source material for generations of rock performers.

• Clyde McPhatterNarrower topic: McPhatter’s powerful tenor and rhythmic delivery helped carry R&B vocal-group sounds into early rock and roll.

• Eddie CochranNarrower topic: Cochran’s rockabilly recordings helped establish this broader genre’s sound.

• Exile on Main St.Narrower topic: The album reshapes rock and roll through blues, gospel, country, and soul.

• Fats DominoNarrower topic: Domino’s hits helped make rhythm-and-blues sounds central to the new style.

• Ike TurnerNarrower topic: “Rocket 88” is frequently cited among the recordings that helped establish the style.

• Jackie WilsonNarrower topic: Wilson’s high-energy performances helped connect rhythm and blues to the emerging rock-and-roll audience.

• Jerry Leiber and Mike StollerNarrower topic: Their songs and recordings helped define the genre’s early repertoire and storytelling style.

• Johnny HallydayNarrower topic: Hallyday adapted its sound and performance style for French audiences.

• Bill HaleyNarrower topic: Haley’s work belongs to the genre whose early popularity he helped expand.

• Chubby CheckerNarrower topic: Checker’s dance-driven singles became part of early rock-and-roll pop culture.

• Louis JordanNarrower topic: Jordan’s rhythmic recordings and comic vocal delivery helped prepare the ground for early rock.

• Neil SedakaNarrower topic: Sedaka’s first hits emerged during rock and roll’s early transformation of American pop.

• Paul AnkaNarrower topic: Anka emerged during rock and roll’s first major wave while retaining a polished pop style.

• Wanda JacksonNarrower topic: Jackson adapted its driving rhythms and vocal attitude to a country-based sound.

• Wolfman JackNarrower topic: Wolfman Jack's broadcasts helped circulate rock and roll to listeners across regional boundaries.

• Johnnie RayNarrower topic: Rock and roll’s rise changed the market that had made Ray a leading pop star.