Frank Jackman comment:
Sure we are today on July 5, 2015
very far removed from the rockabilly side of the origins of rock and rock (now
called the classic age of rock to distinguish it from post-1964 roc and its
progeny) and rock as a genre has undergone many permutations and transformations
on its way to a niche in history. But for one moment, one brief moment as it
turned out, we, those of us who came of age in the 1950s were present at the
creation. Maybe kicking and screaming if we were boys about how we didn’t
compare with Elvis as much as we slicked back out hair, moved our cranky hips
or forced that sneer the girls just kicking and screaming said they wished they
could take off his face. But from that moment we said rock and roll will never
die. And through the good offices of YouTube it now never will. A retro-thanks
Elvis even if I still can’t move those hips of mine.
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