Dancing – and dancing shows – became a teenage craze in the 1950s, spurred by figures like Cleveland DJ, Alan Freed. His hit dance show featured R&B and African American music – which he later dubbed ...

Rock ‘n’ roll seemed to some like it emerged fully formed in the 1950s, as artists became superstars overnight on the strength of a magnetic single or two. In actuality, the music had been slowly ...

The 1950s saw rock ‘n’ roll burst onto the scene and change music forever. From Elvis Presley’s hip-shaking performances that scandalized parents and drove teens wild to Chuck Berry’s epic guitar ...

When the modern world was born, Jerry Lee Lewis was there. During that heady spurt of mid-1950s generational rebellion, Lewis and his pompadoured peers invented rock ‘n’ roll and became footloose ...

The ballroom has been used as a backdrop for the music videos of Tina Turner and Elton John among others - Rii Schroer Opposite the overground station and nestling between coffee shops, on an ...

Are you tired of turning on the oldies station only to discover that they are playing the exact same 20 songs that they played yesterday? And they aren’t even your favorites?! Jon Sommers understands.

The time is one autumn in the golden summer era of the 1950s. Orangeburg's Bluebird Theatre has been magically transformed into Mom's Malt Shop, the local hangout for the kids at Herbert Hoover High ...

Little Richard opened up in a 1990 interview with Rolling Stone about his decades-long career and his place in the music industry and music history. Artists like Sister Rosetta Tharpe have been ...

In an unprecedented era of human history clad with groundbreaking new technologies and previously-unimaginable interconnection via the internet, there’s an amazing fascination with something quite old ...