Why Rock N’ Roll Is Rock N’ Roll?
Well, it all started out when the Black Americans were excluded from the mainstream life, and the thing they called back then, “The American Dream.” Hence, they created something so special; Rock N’ Roll was born. It was a form of art that spoke out to them, the joys, the sorrows, the pain, and of course, the hope. It was all about the spiritual journey, and it was established as the music for the slaves. Blood, Pain, and Love played a crucial part and were the primary outlet for expressing themselves for many years; Jazz, Boogie Woogie, Jive, and because of Little Richard became Rock N’ Roll that people all over the planet could identify with.
What Does It Mean To All Of Us?
To Be Blunt, it means absolutely everything! First, without Rock N’ Roll, life as we know it would definitely suck. It is a magical thing in a world full of hatred. Rock N’ Roll is as important as AIR. A Freedom, An Opinion, The Right To Express Yourself, Or To Even Rebel, and A Way Of Living. Rock N’ Roll Is Everything, — Plainly Awesome.
Rock N’ Roll made our lives go around.
So Where Can We Pinpoint The Origin Of Rock N’ Roll?
Remember AC/DC’s Let There Be Rock? — YES! Just through the song itself, you can exactly tell “How Rock N’ Roll Came To Life.”
Have a listen to Bon Scott preach Rock N’ Roll
Here’s the Lyrics;
In the beginning
Back in nineteen fifty-five
Man didn’t know about a rock ‘n’ roll show
And all that jive
The white man had the Smoltz
The black man had the blues
No one knew what they was gonna do
But Tchaikovsky had the news
He said
Let there be sound
There was sound
Let there be light
There was light
Let there be drums
There was drums
Let there be guitar
There was guitar
Oh, Let there be rock
And it came to pass
That rock ‘n’ roll was born
All across the land every rockin’ band
Was blowing up a storm
And the guitar man got famous
The businessman got rich
And in every bar there was a super star
With a seven year itch
There were fifteen million fingers
Learning how to play
And you could hear the fingers picking
And this is what they had to say
Let there be light
Sound
Drums
Guitar
Let there be rock
One night in a club called “The Shaking Hand”
There was a ninety-two decibel rocking band
And the music was good and the music was loud
And the singer turned and he said to the crowd –
Let there be rock
And after that just a lot of folks were rocking it, Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and even the Fats Domino, so on and so forth, the rest was history.