Shaken Rattled & Rolled – A History of Rockabilly and Rock ‘n’ Roll (book)

Shaken Rattled & Rolled – A History of Rockabilly and Rock ‘n’ Roll
book by Mike George

At around 1am on July 5, 1954 in Memphis, Tennessee, popular music changed forever.
Sun Studios owner Sam Phillips had been looking for something different.
What he found was something so different that it was to change society and its attitudes – as well as popular music – forever.
It would later be called rockabilly and evolve directly into what we now call rock ‘n’ roll.
But how did this music, which represented a seismic change of direction, explode into the public consciousness?
Where had it come from? What were the sources?
What had changed in America so fundamentally that had allowed a white boy to sing the black man’s blues and what was America’s response?
And why did this rock ‘n’ roll have a lasting impact on society and its attitudes?
Shaken Rattled and Rolled is the re-working of the history of rockabilly and original rock ‘n’ roll.
Some of the attitudes of American society are explained, the social upheavals are looked at and many of the myths of what happened are also investigated.
See how the music, which the establishment dismissed as a ‘flash in the pan’ craze that would only last a few months, not only endured, but was exported to the world, and continues to this day.
This is a must for any modern music fan, as they are transported back to the 1950s, when a new type of music exploded in America, in the middle of the Cold War and against a backdrop of a deeply divided country, that was struggling with segregation and tensions between black and white.
THIS was Rock ‘n’ Roll!