Chuck Berry – Roll Over Beethoven (1956)
The year is 1956. The scent of hot wax and vacuum tubes hangs in the air of Universal Recording Corp.…
The year is 1956. The scent of hot wax and vacuum tubes hangs in the air of Universal Recording Corp.…
The first sound is the silence being broken by a simple, dry rhythmic snap. Snap, snap, snap. It’s the sound…
The year is 1958. The airwaves are thick with the frantic energy of rock and roll—Elvis’s swagger, Jerry Lee’s wild…
There are moments in music and cinema that cease to be mere entertainment and become cultural touchstones—instants of such perfect,…
It’s an undeniable sound, one that cuts through the noise of any generation. The sheer brashness of the opening notes—the…
The neon sign above the New Orleans club, slicked by a warm, passing rain, had burned out its second ‘O’…
The year is 1957. The sound of a teenage revolution, catalyzed just two years prior by a Memphis boy and…
The year is 1976, and the air is thick with the thump of disco and the roar of arena rock.…
The air in the studio must have crackled that day in June 1958. Not with the velvet sigh of strings…
It is a moment you can chart not by the clock, but by the spine’s involuntary shiver. The lights cut.…