How To Use Rock 'n' roll In A Sentence
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Stuart began offering what he called hillbilly rock,'' an amalgam of energized honky-tonk and rock 'n' roll that he rode well into the '90s.
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Rock 'n' roll has got nothing on these African rhythms.
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They've also been called the saviours of rock 'n' roll.
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In fact, my only similarity with the ultimate rock 'n' roll axeman is that I also like drinking inadvisable quantities of Jack Daniel's.
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Apparently, these items are inspired by the classic drive-ins that sprang up during the Rock 'n' Roll era in the West.
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Chapman couldn't help but notice that the brothers were remarkably well-behaved, contrary to their reputation for being rock 'n' roll hellraisers.
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There is something about this musical distinction that vexes me, but for the sake of the argument I'd say upbeat rock 'n' roll.
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He used to be the lead singer in a rock 'n' roll band.
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When all is said and done, they come across as a rock 'n' roll Motown wall of sound.
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When Music From Big Pink came out, people could hear mountain music in there, gospel music, blues, rock 'n' roll, rhythm and blues, and all these things like it was a big gumball of music, and it was because we had really woodsheded it and educated ourselves in trying to hone our skills.
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English - or, to be more accurate, American - is the one and only language of rock 'n' roll's strut and swagger.
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I'd like it to cover a whole range of dance styles, from reggae to rock 'n' roll and from soul to swing.
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It's not all about suits, lawyers and accountants - it's about rock 'n' roll and creativity.
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Instead, the song's about a rock 'n' roll archetype - the wild heartbreaker, the man-eater, the endearing groupie - and it never manages to transcend the blandly conceptual.
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You really know you've made it when they enshrine you in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.
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I think it's wasted energy to get overexcited about stuff like that because it's only rock 'n' roll.
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Those same frozen fries gain similar respectability sopping up the cognac-tinged pan juices of rock 'n' roll beef, a staple of local Vietnamese menus that grew on me here.
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Huge choruses, great harmonies and heads-down rock 'n' roll permeate this earworm-infested stormer.
The Sun
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The wild popularity of teen idol-driven bubblegum will burst, giving way to a new wave of old-fashioned rock 'n' roll.
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I suspect he preferred the novelty of being a black man who sang like Elvis in mostly white honky-tonks to being a nearly blind visitor to the king of rock 'n' roll's court.
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It seems to be one of those words of rock 'n' roll origin that describes the ‘stuff’ inside a person that gives them that extra bit of fizz and sparkle and swagger to get through life.
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All hail the new kings of American rock 'n' roll.
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The record doesn't want you to just kick back and listen, preferring to taunt you from your chair via head-nodding blues punch-ups and brawling rock 'n' roll.
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Like any ex-civilian, raw recruit Elvis Presley, the king of rock 'n' roll will be keeping time to ordinary bugle calls.
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For a rock 'n' roll manager it was actually reasonably sensible.
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He sleeps with the beautiful, full-figured prostitutes who walk the streets of Rue Bleue, pines after the gamine next door and develops a taste for rock 'n' roll and le jazz Americain.
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For the rock 'n' roll generation, Eminem, né Marshall Mathers III, is the most compelling figure to have emerged from popular music since the holy trinity of Dylan, Lennon and Jagger.
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This is unapologetic good-time rock 'n' roll done with tongue planted firmly in cheek (as well as some other areas).
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The rock 'n' roll dream isn't only about sleeping on floors and continually bumming cigarettes.
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He is as gruff as a bulldog's bark, yet underneath the hoary rock 'n' roll bluster, Lemmy, author of songs such as ‘Die You Bastard,’ is curiously old fashioned and a stickler for good manners.
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From rock 'n' roll funerals to cryogenics, people's preferences for final arrangements now vary according to demographics, geography, and personal style.
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He had seared rock 'n' roll culture with an apocalyptic brew of punk, ska, rockabilly, dub - you name it - and then he seemed to just walk away.
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My mother was responsible, solely because in deference to his manic passion for rock 'n' roll music my father wanted to call me Elvisa and had to be countenanced at all costs.
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The label urban fantasy. 15 years ago, urban fantasy was what we called stuff like Charles DeLint and the Borderlands series and all those rock 'n' roll elf stories.
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Shooting flames, smoke machines, klieg lights, back arching/lip curling guitarist posers -- it's "Dancing with the Stars" first ever Rock 'n' Roll night!
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Hadn't Mark heard that cooking was the new rock 'n' roll?
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The band, who were all asleep at the time (very rock 'n' roll), were thrown from their bunks and some suffered minor injuries.
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Now we're going to turn back the clock with some rock 'n' roll from the 1950s.
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His long silence has been our loss, for he is one of the great rock 'n' roll stylists on the instrument.
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The secret may be that although rock 'n' roll is supposedly at its best when it's riffing on the pleasures and heartaches of youth, Springsteen edged away from that very early in his career.
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The end of the 60s saw too many flowered, silked, brocaded and babooned pop stars giving the peace sign with the missus in front of their rock 'n' roll manors before retreating indoors and screaming "Where's my f------ breakfast?!
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The Beatles" version exclusively explores the Fab Four's extensive archive, while the other two titles delve into the vast genre of rock 'n' roll.
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Thoughtful and articulate with a warming, thick Scouse accent Nick has some pretty candid views about life and rock 'n' roll.
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It was about welding existing styles (retro costumes, quiffs and old rock 'n' roll riffs) onto a recently developed technological chassis supplied by the synthesiser.
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I don't even try for the right word anymore. laughs Somehow the word "fusion" keeps coming back around, but to me, that was something that is reminiscent of the '70s when jazz music moved up to a bigger venue and started using more electrical instruments, and rock 'n' roll devices.
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Their arrangement is a little grungier and one of the reasons the lyrics were so garbled is that their lead singer, Jack Ely, had braces and the engineer had one really good microphone that he hung way up high so that it wouldn't get any rock 'n' roll spit on it.
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This is solid rock 'n' roll played with attitude.
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And rather than feel like he's selling out, Walkley says his reel compositions allow his real rock 'n' roll songs to "be more pure," because life as an independent songwriter means "you don't have a label breathing down your neck.
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That rock 'n' roll scenery may be familiar, but its not often it's rendered as beautifully as this.
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There is an argument which holds that half a century after its birth, rock 'n' roll is now a geriatric form which, like jazz, has become incapable of innovation or reinvention.
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But their success lies in the simplicity of their music - stripped-down, back-to-basics rock 'n' roll.
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Neither a traditionalist, a Chicago stylist, a folkie or a rock 'n' roller, he had from the start a unique sound and a fresh outlook.
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Feet have waltzed upon that floor, shuffled to the Charleston, stepped out to the foxtrot, twisted to rock 'n' roll, grooved to disco beats, pounded to punk and gently tapped beneath seats during musical productions on stage.
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Now we're going to turn back the clock with some rock 'n' roll from the 1950s.
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With each passing year, it becomes increasingly difficult to unearth examples of the sheer unrepressed fury at the heart of rock 'n' roll.
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Their sound is of the vintage of rock 'n' roll's dawning days, raw but tight, energized but not unduly aggressive.
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Forsberg recently released her book Fall To Pieces A Memoir Of Drugs, Rock 'N' Roll, And Mental Illness, which detailed the former couple's relationship - and she revealed the singer called a masseuse during the birth of their first child in 2000.
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You really know you've made it when they enshrine you in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.
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Ever since youngsters frugged to ‘The Monster Mash’ in the early '60s, Halloween has been the unofficial rock 'n' roll holiday.
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You really know you've made it when they enshrine you in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.
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Growing up in a remote and frozen patch of Minnesota, Dylan found heat in the excitement of 50s rock 'n' roll.
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That facet of Canadian retro rock 'n' roll is certainly represented here, but this comp makes a point of showing how varied the punk-surf-rockabilly axis is this side of the border.
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The rocker, famed for his hellraising and womanising ways, says he has had enough of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle and can't wait to finish his current tour so he can tend to his fish.
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It was rock 'n' roll that originally inspired me to become a musician.
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Rock 'n' roll music was largely co-opted from the blues.
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Throughout the room, neon signs flash to announce the upcoming dance style: fox trot, triple swing, mambo, cha cha, tango, waltz, rock 'n' roll and rhumba.
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Rock 'n' roll music was largely co-opted from the blues.
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It was a sold-out all-ages show, and the mainroom floor was swarming with post-pop kids who were amped up on the prospect of the umpteenth revival of raw rock 'n' roll.
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You want your rock 'n' roll stars to have a good time.
The Sun
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Out went the tacky, big-budget stage sets and tricksy technology and in came rock 'n' roll again.
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They've also been called the saviours of rock 'n' roll.
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In several quick sentences, Henninger, who claims to have grown up on rock music, muffs several simple historical facts about rock 'n' roll.
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Recorded in Los Angeles last year, this is an intimate, entertaining, and important statement by the now grizzly rock 'n' roll animal.
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This is basically boomer rock 'n' roll and more recent music out of Nashville made for boomers.
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And this is why rock 'n' roll has suited him so well; a medium in which impulse prevails over perfection, where the right scattered images and gnarly chords can conjure whole worlds.
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When you throw in sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, bingo!
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A couple of years ago, I was interviewing Paul McCartney when he started talking about the sheer physical delight of singing rock 'n' roll.
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Three years of touring around America and experiencing the highs and lows of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle followed, with Mankowitz in effect becoming the seventh member of the band.
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But he never succumbed to the lure of rock 'n' roll degeneracy, generally avoiding both the gossip columns and the gutter.
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It was kind of an eye-opener that maybe I didn't want to pursue that whole lifestyle of being a rock 'n' roll star.
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Well, there were some presentiments of the rock 'n' roll destiny that beckoned.
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TRIBAL LEADERSTeddy Boys, Mods and RockersIn drape jackets, drainpipes and creepers, Teddy boys roamed the streets as rock 'n' roll took root in Britain.
Is music tribalism dead?
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Give me good old-fashioned rock 'n' roll any day!
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You want your rock 'n' roll stars to have a good time.
The Sun
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With the invention of the electric guitar, rock 'n' roll was born.
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Rock 'n' roll music was largely co-opted from the blues.
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But he was as good a husband as the king of rock 'n' roll could be.
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He used to be the lead singer in a rock 'n' roll band.
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As "The Union" reveals, the two still share traits: the influence of gospel and early rock 'n' roll in their piano pl aying; the ability to craft beautifully structured songs with memorable melodies; and an affinity for adding a somber shade to their compositions.
Elton John's American Idol
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I'm Going to my Room to be Cool Now and I Don't Want to be Disturbed was Dendy's unblushing crowd pleaser: a thirteen-part suite, set to funky rock 'n' roll classics.
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Twenty years later, still sprouting sideburns and a head of thick, oil-black hair, Wolfe still looks every bit the rock 'n' roll dude.
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Totally punk and 'romantically' rock 'n' roll; decadent and completely unorthodox.
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The road from high school rejects to rock 'n' roll sweethearts wasn't all peach schnapps and cream, though.
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He dug them for their rock 'n' roll spirit, they dug him for his; fate will always find a way, and now it's love, right?
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Hadn't Mark heard that cooking was the new rock 'n' roll?
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For the rock 'n' roll generation, Eminem, né Marshall Mathers III, is the most compelling figure to have emerged from popular music since the holy trinity of Dylan, Lennon and Jagger.
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Pete and I, we discover, have a mutual acquaintance in Scots rock 'n' roller Bob Fish whose trio, Johnny & The Roccos, are well known hereabouts.
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Thoughtful and articulate with a warming, thick Scouse accent Nick has some pretty candid views about life and rock 'n' roll.
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It's still rock 'n' roll," Lacombe says, but will include special guests such as accordionist Cory Pesaturo and possibly former Morphine saxophonist Dana Colley.
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Your future holds the trappings of a rock 'n' roll superstar lifestyle.
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The only problem was that this heavy drinking, chain smoking, self-styled rock 'n' roll comedy outlaw had already made other plans.
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It's packed with obscenely gooey, sugar-coated rock 'n' roll songs.
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A trio of rock acts will take it in turns to headline with their pure and unadulterated rock 'n' roll as part of ‘The New School of Rock’ tour.
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We hang together, go to the same school and think rock 'n' roll is rad.
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This is solid rock 'n' roll played with attitude.
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Canada's finest rock 'n' roll act, The Sadies, have strong family ties.
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Give me good old-fashioned rock 'n' roll any day!
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Good-natured and bouncy, they show off Reed's love of old-school rock 'n' roll and Sterling Morrison's effortless rhythm work.
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Hadn't Mark heard that cooking was the new rock 'n' roll?
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The production makes good use of rock 'n' roll, the wireless and the skiffle band.
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They were the years of drainpipe trousers, the birth of rock 'n' roll, and TV in good old black and white - and the over-50s wish the fabulous 1950s were still here.
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It's the salvation of a band nearly lost to sophomore obscurity; a rebirth made possible only through a stunning grasp for the humblest roots of American rock 'n' roll.
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From the release of their debut album their winning combo of Tex Mex, blues, rock 'n' roll, country and Mexican folk had critics raving.
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A slip of a man, he is a little bit glam, a little bit rock 'n' roll and he sports a rooster-type quiff hairdo.
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Despite what major label accountants would have you believe, rock 'n' roll is in a state of rude health at the moment.
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Together they run through the obligatory tunes about being badasses, living for rock 'n' roll, and, in classic metal ballad form, confessing that even a confirmed rock 'n' roll badass needs a lady by his side.
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Yeah, that's what music should be: rock 'n' roll, headbutts, and a hug.
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Funhouse pushed the chaos of rock 'n' roll to its natural conclusion, pitting lusty skronk and noise against raw, distorted blues.
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It is not as if Bob has ruthlessly ditched loads of old duffers to make way for cutting-edge rock 'n' roll talent.
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The only thing more Russian than bortsch and babushkas is - uh, rock 'n' roll?
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Rock 'n' roll music was largely co-opted from the blues.
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It's a timeless display of good-time rock 'n' roll, and you'd have to be a churlish misery guts to claim otherwise.
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Set in 1966, during what an opening title helpfully labels "the greatest era for British rock 'n' roll," the movie takes place almost entirely on a massive, red-hulled ship that has been converted into a radio station for the purpose of promulgating the devil's music to Britain's unsuspecting populace, who would otherwise be limited to the rock-free BBC.
The Clog
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With the invention of the electric guitar, rock 'n' roll was born.
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In fact, my only similarity with the ultimate rock 'n' roll axeman is that I also like drinking inadvisable quantities of Jack Daniel's.
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John Soper: N.E.D. is a rock 'n' roll band comprised of 6 gynecologic oncologists from around the country.
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The short Welsh guy would often dress up as Elvis Presley, and do note-perfect covers of rock 'n' roll hits.
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Rock 'n' roll has got nothing on these African rhythms.
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As a teenager, he had sat in the coffee bars and jazz clubs, and later watched rock 'n' roll and blues enter the city.
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This issue features the shy guys and gals of Belle and Sebastian and Muse's Matt Bellamy under the spotlight, while the Human League are subjected to the rock 'n' roll heretic's obligatory critical eye.
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Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal Stallion-stitched leather buckle For the Wild Man A little bit country, a little bit rock 'n' roll circa '70s Eagles, this stallion-stitched leather buckle grooves well with a similar colored belt, worn-in low-slung corduroys, a dandy printed button-down and beat-up espadrilles.
Shoot From the Hip
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But that's what rock 'n' roll is all about, say the fashion mavens.
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Simon Caulkin is a writer and editor who for 16 years was the Observer's management columnist, writing on subjects ranging from rock 'n' roll to the banking crisis.
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Elvis fans have a new shrine to their hero - a remote Scottish hamlet named this week as the ancestral home of the king of rock 'n' roll.
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I like the idea of when rock 'n' roll started to burgeon, push the envelope and speak on behalf of people who were trying to have a revolution.
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His critics presumably won't listen to the rest of the disc, but they're missing a vibrant, rejuvenated Earle, who grabs fistfuls of Tex-Mex, rock 'n' roll and gutbucket blues and subjects them to a shed-load of studio wizardry.
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Now we're going to turn back the clock with some rock 'n' roll from the 1950s.
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Until now, one of the greatest rave-ups in rock 'n' roll history was also its least remembered.
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You may be too young to remember them but they used to be kings of rock 'n' roll.
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Perhaps we should turn to other forms of rebellion, such as rock 'n' roll.
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He is the ultimate example of drug-fuelled rock 'n' roll excess, the other is a douce, dapper pillar of Scotland's literary establishment.
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With the invention of the electric guitar, rock 'n' roll was born.
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Huge choruses, great harmonies and heads-down rock 'n' roll permeate this earworm-infested stormer.
The Sun
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Since the record is described as a "rock 'n' roll epitaph" to her father, what would George Edward Flotard Jr., a former New York City steamfitter who was certainly proud of his born-to-be-wild child (and wore a Visqueen shirt four out of seven days a week to prove it) think about Message To Garcia?
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One that understands that rock 'n' roll is as much about songwriting, as it is about headbanging.
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Hadn't Mark heard that cooking was the new rock 'n' roll?
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With the arrival of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s and '60s, many veteran jazzmen felt displaced and further detached from the mainstream; most dismissed post-Elvis strains of popular music.
Searching for New Jazz Under Every Rock
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You really know you've made it when they enshrine you in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.
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Now we're going to turn back the clock with some rock 'n' roll from the 1950s.
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This is a classic lightning blaze of good-times rock 'n' roll.
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American Minor, the freshly New York-based rock 'n' roll quintette, was founded in West Virginia in 2004.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Forty-Three
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It's packed with obscenely gooey, sugar-coated rock 'n' roll songs.
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The cowbell is a symbol of rock 'n' roll excellence, concentrated in one ‘conk’ sound.
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He used to be the lead singer in a rock 'n' roll band.
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In 1959, two grammar school boys take different paths: one achieves academic success, the other becomes a drifter working in a holiday camp and on fairgrounds, before deciding that his destiny lies in rock 'n' roll.
