Performance art was anticipated, if not explicitly formulated, by Japan's Gutai group of the 1950s, especially in such works as Atsuko Tanaka's " Electric Dress " ( 1956 ).

Japan's relations with the Soviet Union continued to be problematic after the war, but a Joint Declaration between Japan and the USSR, ending the war and reestablishing diplomatic relations was signed October 19, 1956.

The Tōkaidō Main Line, Japan's busiest line, completed electrification in 1956 and Tōkaidō Shinkansen was complete in 1964.

* Japan's Modern Century From Perry to 1970 ( 1956 )

Haley continued to score hits throughout the 1950s such as " See You Later, Alligator " and he starred in the first rock and roll musical movies Rock Around the Clock and Don't Knock the Rock, both in 1956.

* 1956 – Mari Boine, Norwegian musician who added jazz & rock to the yoiks of the Sami people

Both movies contained the Bill Haley & His Comets hit " Rock Around the Clock ", which first entered the British charts in early 1955 – four months before it reached the US pop charts – topped the British charts later that year and again in 1956, and helped identify rock and roll with teenage delinquency.

In " There's No Love in Rock and Roll " from True Life Romance ( 1956 ), a defiant teen dates a rock and roll-loving boy but drops him for one who likes traditional adult music — to her parents ' relief.

In 1956 the British scientist James Fisher referred to the island as " the most isolated small rock in the oceans of the world.

Film makers took advantage of the popularity of " rhythm and blues " musicians as " rock n roll " musicians beginning in 1956.

Long Way to the Top was a 2001 Australian Broadcasting Corporation six-part documentary on the history of Australian rock and roll from 1956 to the modern era.

Chuck Berry, with " Maybellene " ( 1955 ), " Roll over Beethoven " ( 1956 ), " Rock and Roll Music " ( 1957 ) and " Johnny B. Goode " ( 1958 ), refined and developed the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, focusing on teen life and introducing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music.

Of the fatalities, 53 have resulted from falls ; 65 deaths were attributable to environmental causes, including heat stroke, cardiac arrest, dehydration, and hypothermia ; 7 were caught in flash floods ; 79 were drowned in the Colorado River ; 242 perished in airplane and helicopter crashes ( 128 of them in the 1956 disaster mentioned below ); 25 died in freak errors and accidents, including lightning strikes and rock falls ; 48 committed suicide ; and 23 were the victims of homicides.

In 1956 the group appeared in two of the earliest full-length rock and roll movies: Rock Around the Clock, and Don't Knock the Rock.

Welsh rock band Mclusky recorded the song " 1956 and All That " for their third album The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire.

O ' Keefe formed a band in 1956 ; his hit Wild One made him the first Australian rock ' n ' roller to reach the national charts.

Phillips's pivotal role in the early days of rock and roll was exemplified by a celebrated jam session on December 4, 1956 which came to be known as the Million Dollar Quartet.

In 1956, he began to tour Europe and America playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and rock artist George Harrison of The Beatles.

George Harrison credits Heartbreak Hotel with handing him a " rock n roll epiphany " when in 1956, at age 13, he overheard it being played at a neighbor's house while riding his bike.

In 2004 it was ranked number forty-five on Rolling Stones list of " The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ", the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame included it in its unranked list 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll and in 2005, Uncut magazine ranked the first performance of " Heartbreak Hotel " in 1956 by Presley as the second greatest and most important cultural event of the rock and roll era.

Michael Hampton ( born November 15, 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio ) is a funk / rock guitarist.

Other landmarks historically associated with Ardmore include the Autocar Manufacturing Company, an important manufacturer of trucks and jeeps during the world wars, once located on Lancaster Pike on the site of the current Ardmore West Shopping Center, which burned down in a famous conflagration in 1956 ; the Ardmore Theater on Lancaster Pike, now the Philadelphia Sports Club ; Harrison's Department Store, on the north side of Lancaster Pike across from the theater ; Mads Record Shop, rock music mecca since the genre's inception, still going strong ; the Merion Art Center ; the Pennywise Thrift Shop of Jefferson Medical College ; Lyons Hardware Store on Rittenhouse Place ; Rittenhouse Electric, also on Rittenhouse Place ; A. Talone Cleaners at Lancaster and Greenfield ; and luxury travel company SWAIN Tours.

In the mid-1950s he was drawn to American rock and roll ; his mother recounts that he repeatedly saw the 1956 film Rock Around the Clock.

Among the brightest stars of early Australian rock and roll was Johnny O ' Keefe, who formed a band in 1956 ; his hit Wild One made him the first Australian rock ' n ' roller to reach the national charts.

Glen Matlock ( born 27 August 1956, Paddington, West London ) is an English musician best known for being the bass guitarist in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols.

In the 1956 film Rock, Rock, Rock, Freed tells the audience that " rock and roll is a river of music that has absorbed many streams: rhythm and blues, jazz, rag time, cowboy songs, country songs, folk songs.

Despite these failures, Francis was hired to record the vocals for Tuesday Weld's " singing " scenes in the 1956 movie Rock, Rock, Rock, and for Freda Holloway in the 1957 Warner Brothers rock and roll movie Jamboree.

Rock and roll has been seen as reorienting popular music towards a teen market, often celebrating teen fashions, as in Carl Perkins ' " Blue Suede Shoes " ( 1956 ), or Dion and the Belmonts " A Teenager in Love " ( 1960 ).

Drum brakes have also been incorporated on the transmission tailshaft as parking brakes ( e. g. Chryslers through 1956 ), with the an advantage that it is completely independent of the service brakes, but having a severe disadvantage in that when used with a bumper jack ( common in that era ) on the rear ( without proper wheel blocks ) the differential's action can allow the vehicle to roll off the jack.

However, in an essay published in Heartaches by the Number: Country Music's 500 Greatest Singles, David Cantwell argues that Elvis Presley's rock and roll recording of " Don't Be Cruel " in July 1956 was the record that sparked the beginning of the era now called the Nashville sound.

" However, the rise of the electric guitar essentially ended the dominance of the tenor sax in rock and roll by 1956.

By 1956, he successfully placed the Coloureds on a separate voters ' roll, thus further weakening ties with the Commonwealth and gaining support for the NP.

Rockabilly musician Janis Martin equated jitterbug with rock and roll dancing in her April 1956 song " Drugstore Rock ' n ' Roll ":

With the explosion of rock and roll music, Billboard premiered a weekly Best-Selling Popular Albums chart on March 24, 1956.

Both films contained the Bill Haley & His Comets hit " Rock Around the Clock ", which first entered the British charts in early 1955-four months before it reached the US pop charts-topped the British charts later that year and again in 1956, and helped identify rock and roll with teenage delinquency.

" Chuck Berry, with " Maybellene " ( recorded on May 21, 1955, and which reached # 1 on the R & B chart and # 5 on the US pop chart ), " Roll over Beethoven " ( 1956 ), " Rock and Roll Music " ( 1957 ) and " Johnny B. Goode " ( 1958 ), refined and developed the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, focusing on teen life and introducing guitar intros and lead breaks that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music.

In the mid 1950s American rockabilly and rock and roll music was taken up by local musicians and it soon caught on with Australian teens, through movies, records and from 1956, television.

In the mid-1950s Festival Records grabbed an early lead in rock ' n ' roll by releasing Bill Haley's " Rock Around The Clock " in Australia in 1956 after the single had been turned down EMI / Decca.

Columbia Pictures cashed in on the new craze by hiring Haley and his band to star in two quickie movies, Rock Around the Clock ( 1956 ) and Don't Knock the Rock ( 1957 ).

Calypso, especially a toned-down, commercial variant, became a worldwide craze with the release of the " Banana Boat Song ", or " Day-O ", a traditional Jamaican folk song, whose best-known rendition was done by Harry Belafonte on his album Calypso ( 1956 ); Calypso was the first full-length record to sell more than a million copies.

However, it wasn't until 1956 and the advent of the skiffle craze that the British folk revival crossed over into the mainstream and connected with British youth culture.

Little Pattie featured on " Episode 1: Bed of a Thousand Struggles 1956 – 1964 " where she discussed her early surf music and ' The Stomp ' dance craze .< ref name =" LWEp1 "> NOTE: The website quotes her as Little Patti < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki >.</ ref > The TV series inspired the Long Way to the Top national concert tour during August – September 2002, which featured a host of the best Australian acts of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s including Little Pattie and Col Joye and the Joy Boys.

The craze reached its apex of popularity in the mid-1950s with the release of the hugely successful Harry Belafonte single " Banana Boat Song " and Belafonte's million-selling 1956 LP Calypso.