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Rock and Roll began in 1955 when the band "Bill Haley and the Comets" created a new style of music with the smash hit "Rock around the Clock", this is thought of as the beginning of Rock and Roll.

The teenager craze for Rock and Roll began when the song was featured in the movie "Blackboard Jungle", a movie about juvenile delinquets, with the lead singer portaying a young rebel. Teenagers watching this movie couldn't help but get up and start dancing.

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Rock 'n' Roll started in the early 1950s as a spinoff of R&B (rhythm and blues). R&B was a popular style within the black community, but soon started gaining crossover sales among white young people. To reach a larger audience, enterprising music producers started making "covers" of R&B songs using white artists (Jerry Lee Lewis and Bill Haley, for example). In particular, they removed some of the more risqué lyrics to make the songs more acceptable to white audiences.

Rock 'n' Roll in the 1950s is noted for the 4/4 time signature, a strong backbeat and a swing eighth-note rhythm between beats--all taken directly from R&B. The bouncy rhythmic effect helped establish the label "rock and roll", although "rocking and rolling" had been a frequent double-entendre in blues lyrics since the 1920s, and probably earlier.

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it started in 1954. It is generally agreed that the term was coined by Alan Freed, a popular disc jockey in Cleveland.

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The King of Rock 'n' Roll was created in 1988.

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Late 1970's.

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Rock N Roll was started In Philadelphia.

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