The most controversial songs of the ’50s: Do you agree? The 1950s were a decade at war with its own music. Rock and roll arrived as a collision between Black rhythm and blues and white country, and ...

Before the British Invasion, before Motown, before psychedelic rock, the 1950s invented the template for everything that followed. It gave us the electric guitar as a cultural weapon, the backbeat as ...

Rock and roll was in full swing in 1961, and there were so many songs that climbed the charts that very year. While the genre itself might feel a bit dated to modern audiences, I think there’s ...

The year 1955 was an important year for rock 'n' roll, and musicians who would become the most legendary names in the genre ...