It’s sometimes said that while Americans invented rock ‘n’ roll, it was the British who perfected it. Now the Brits are out to do the same to that quintessentially American manifestation of pop music ...

It was just before 8 a.m. on a Monday when I awoke in a Loop hotel room with a ringing in my ears. I thought it was some kind of hangover from Iceman Robinson’s guitar solos at Rosa’s on the West Side ...