Commentators have customarily perceived a decrease of rock and roll in the late 1950s and early sixties. By 1959, the Demise of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a aircraft crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Minor Richard to be a preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry plus the breaking o

Inheriting the people custom from the protest track, rock music is connected with political activism, and changes in social attitudes to race, sex, and drug use, and is usually viewed being an expression of youth revolt against Grownup consumerism and conformity. Simultaneously, it has been commercially remarkably successful, bringing about accusat