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Chuck Berry. Little Richard. Bo Diddley. Fats Domino. Bill Haley and The Comets. Jerry Lee Lewis. Buddy Holly. Elvis Presley. The Everly Brothers. Carl Perkins. Ritchie Valens. The Big Bopper. Rock ‘n’ Roll stops all of a sudden in 1959. WHY?. Jerry Lewis and his 13 year old wife.
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Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper,and Ritchie Valens die in a plane crash
Little Richard says Rock music is the devil. He becomes an evangelist
Questions to begin class: • What do early Rock ‘n’ Roll artists have in common in the 1950s? • Where in America was “Rock ‘n’ Roll” first given its name? • What five instruments were typically found in a Rock band in the 1950s? • What is American Bandstand? • What was the Payola scandal? • What happened to R ‘n’ R at the end of the 1950s?