The first American artist to perform in the United Kingdom
A landmark moment.
Bill Haley
The movie that changed The Who’s Pete Townshend’s life forever: “Mesmerised”
Things were never the same.
“That was all”: Pete Townshend on the artists he called the miracle of rock and roll
The big bang of rock and roll.
What was the first song to go “viral”?
Music “going viral” has become a feature of our age, but this was the start…
The song that changed Tom Jones’ life: “It hit me like a tonne of bricks”
Jones hailed it the “beginning” of rock ‘n’ roll.
