Miller presents a fly-on-the-wall look at the history of rock and roll music, recounting 45 rock epiphanies in a provocative and anecdotal format.
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Contents
Preface: A Rock and Roll Chronicle
1: Life Could Be a Dream
December 28, 1947: "Good Rockin' Tonight"
October 29, 1949: Red Hot and Blue
April 1950: Fender Guitars
Winter 1950-1951: "The Tennessee Waltz"
Winter 1950-1951: "Teardrops From My Eyes"
1951: Top 40
March 21, 1952: The Moondog Coronation Ball
August 1952: "Kansas City"
Summer 1953: Elvis Hears Voices
March 15, 1954: "Sh-Boom"
July 30, 1954: Elvis Discovers His Body
November 24, 1954: Copyrighting "Rock and Roll"
Spring 1955: Blackboard Jungle
2: Rock and Roll Music
March 15, 1955: "Ain't It a Shame"
May 21, 1955: "Maybellene"
September 14, 1955: "Tutti Frutti"
November 1955: "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"
December 19, 1955: "Blue Suede Shoes"
3: All Shook Up
June 5, 1956: Elvis From the Waist Down
March 25, 1957: Ricky Nelson Impresses His Girlfriend
August 5, 1957: American Bandstand
October 21, 1957: Jailhouse Rock
October 15, 1958: "Lonely Teardrops"
November 22, 1959: Payola
May 12, 1960: Elvis Comes Home
4: Glad All Over
November 9, 1961: Brian Epstein Enters the Cavern
1961-1962: Robert Johnson: King of the Delta Blues Singers
September 4, 1962: "How Do You Do It?"
April 28, 1963: Andrew Loog Oldham Enters the Crawdaddy Club
November 11, 1963: BEATLEMANIA!
July 25, 1965: Dylan Goes Electric
October-November 1965: Rubber Soul
5: Break on Through
December 4, 1965: The Acid Test
February 8-13, 1966: Andy Warhol, Up-Tight
June 1, 1967: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
June 16-18, 1967: Monterey Pop
June 7, 1968: "Sympathy for the Devil"
1970-1971: What's Going On
July 3, 1971: The End
6: Stairway to Heaven
July 9, 1972: Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
1972-1973: The Harder They Come
August 1, 1973: American Graffiti
October 1975: Rock and Roll Future
December 2, 1976: "Anarchy in the U.K."
August 16, 1977: My Way
Epilogue: "No Future"
Notes and Discographies
Acknowledgments
Index
