Jerry Lee Lewis, a rock 'n' roll icon as controversial as he was influential, died on this day in 2022. He was 87 years old.

Rock ‘n’ roll seemed to some like it emerged fully formed in the 1950s, as artists became superstars overnight on the strength of a magnetic single or two. In actuality, the music had been slowly ...

From baseball and television to air conditioning and Coca-Cola, the United States has offered the world no shortage of contributions. Few of those contributions, however, can hold a candle to the one ...

When the modern world was born, Jerry Lee Lewis was there. During that heady spurt of mid-1950s generational rebellion, Lewis and his pompadoured peers invented rock ‘n’ roll and became footloose ...

Rock ’n' roll wasn't invented in Batavia, but it's had a colorful history in these parts for more than half a century. Many famous rockers performed in Batavia during the genre's golden age in the ...

Popular expressions of approval often have a vogue and then fade away. Once “swell” reigned supreme. “Anybody will look swell” in a hat from a certain Orlando shop, a 1913 Sentinel ad declared — and ...

We recently looked at five standout songs recorded in the 1950s that were largely overshadowed by covers that came later. Of course, there weren’t only five songs that fit that description. One of the ...

As one of the greatest rockers in the canon, Keith Richards knows a thing or two about musicianship. Here he introduces an ...

Little Richard, the screaming, preening, scene-stealing wild man of early rock ‘n’ roll with hits like “Tutti Frutti” and “Long Tall Sally,” died Saturday at 87, Dick Alen, his former agent, confirmed ...