So, for that matter, are the newer dances -- the `` Kalmuk Dance '' with its animal movements, that genial juggling act by Sergei Tsvetkov called `` The Platter '', the rousing and beautiful betrothal celebration called `` Summer '', `` The Three Shepherds '' of Azerbaijan hopping up on their staffs, and, of course, the trenchant `` Rock 'n' Roll ''.

*" Big Dipper ", a song by Jethro Tull from their 1976 album Too Old to Rock ' n ' Roll: Too Young to Die!

On 15 March 2010, Andersson appeared on stage in New York with former wife Anni-Frid Lyngstad to accept ABBA's award of induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Holly was among the first group of inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.

In addition, John Lennon recorded a cover version of " Peggy Sue " on his 1975 album Rock ' n ' Roll.

The Life and Music of Rock ' n ' Roll Pioneer Buddy Holly.

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He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets ( inspired by Halley's Comet ) and million selling hits such as, " Rock Around the Clock ", " See You Later Alligator ", and " Shake Rattle and Roll ".

Haley and his band were important in launching the music known as " Rock and Roll " to a wider, mostly white audience after a period of it being considered an underground genre.

After the record rose to number one, Haley was quickly given the title " Father of Rock and Roll ," by the media, and by teenagers that had come to embrace the new style of music.

Haley was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

* In 1982, John Swenson wrote Bill Haley: The Daddy of Rock and Roll ( published in the UK under the title, Bill Haley ).

* Michael Daingerfield in Mr. Rock ' n ' Roll: The Alan Freed Story ( 1999 )

However, the tracks were nonetheless included in the compilation box set Rock ' n ' Roll Arrives released by Bear Family Records in 2006.

In 2006, Bear Family Records of Germany released what is considered to be the most comprehensive ( yet still incomplete ) collection of Haley's 1946-1950 recordings as part of its Haley box set Rock n ' Roll Arrives.

", " Vive la Rock and Roll ", " So Right Toight ", " Football Rock and Roll ", and " Chick Safari ".

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listed one song by Blind Lemon Jefferson of the 500 songs that shaped rock and roll.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Wills and the Texas Playboys in 1999.

The article quotes Wills as saying, " Rock and Roll?

Accordingly, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and a Grammy Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

* 1987: inducted the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

He performed his song " Bo Diddley " with Eric Clapton, Robbie Robertson, and longtime bassist and musical director Debby Hastings at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 20th annual induction ceremony and in the UK, Uncut magazine included his 1957 debut album " Bo Diddley " in its listing of the ' 100 Music, Movie & TV Moments That Have Changed The World '.

Bo Diddley performed a number of shows around the country in 2005 and 2006 with the fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Johnnie Johnson Band, featuring Johnson on keyboards, Richard Hunt on drums, and Gus Thornton on bass.

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Among many honors, Atkins received 14 Grammy Awards as well as the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, nine Country Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year awards, was inducted into both the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

In 2002, Atkins was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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* Inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Bowie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 17 January 1996.

Bowie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 17 January 1996.

* Lebrancho Rock In 2004, the Town Hall of Puerto del Rosario started this initiative for the growing number of local bands who'd been performing in the area for years but had not had the chance to play at the same event.

Radley Balko has written that " Parsons may be the most influential artist yet to be inducted to either the Rock and Roll or Country Music Hall ( s ) of Fame.

One staff member sympathized with Pei's frustrations with the lack of organization at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, admitting that he was " operating in a vacuum ".

Before he made this change, however, he set to work on his last major project as active partner: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.

In 1986, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2000 into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

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Benny recalls the first records he bought were " Du Bist Musik " by Italian schlager singer Caterina Valente and Elvis Presley's " Jailhouse Rock ".

" Rock Around the Clock " was the first record ever to sell over one million copies in both Britain and Germany and, in 1957, Haley became the first major American rock singer to tour Europe.

In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him 39th on their list of the 100 Greatest Rock Artists of All Time and the 23rd best singer of all time.

* 1971 – Kid Rock, American singer

In September 2005, Kid Rock filled in for Johnny Van Zant, the lead singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd on the band's hit " Sweet Home Alabama " at the Hurricane Katrina benefit concert.

Kid Rock and Scott Stapp, singer of the band Creed, appear in a sex tape from 1999 in which the two have sex with four groupies in a mobile home.

* 1934 – Johnny Burnette, American singer ( The Rock and Roll Trio ) ( d. 1964 )

He frequently contributed to VH1 programs such as the I Love The ... series, and he released the song " Rock Show " featuring singer Stephan Jenkins.

** In Los Angeles, Rock and blues singer Janis Joplin dies in her hotel room, from an overdose of heroin.

* January 17 – Kid Rock, American rock singer

In 1978 singer Patti Smith used the word in " Rock N Roll Nigger ".

In July 2010 Hughes appeared as a guest vocalist ( together with Masterplan singer Jørn Lande ) fronting Heaven & Hell at the High Voltage Rock Festival in London as a tribute to the late Ronnie James Dio.

In chronological order others include: " I've Been Everywhere " by Hank Snow ( 1962 ) ( album of the same title ) and Johnny Cash ( 1996 ) Unchained reworked from the original 1959 Geoff Mack Australian-place-names version made popular by the singer Lucky Starr ; " Down on the Corner " ( 1969 ) by Creedence Clearwater Revival on their fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys covered by a dozen other groups ; " Kalamazoo " ( 1995 ) by Luna on Penthouse ; " Cold Rock a Party " ( 1997 ) by MC Lyte on Bad As I Wanna B ; " Kalamazoo " a song by the rock trio Primus on the 1997 Brown Album ; " Top of the World " by Rascalz ( 1999 ) on Global Warning ; " Kalamazoo ", a song by Ben Folds Five on the 2004 EP Super D ; " 65 Miles from Kalamazoo " ( 2008 ) by R. J. Miller ( a lament for a lost Gibson guitar and a metaphor about " an old girlfriend from Kalamazoo "); and " Kalamazoo " ( 2009 ) by Mike Craver on his album Shining Down.

Copper Canyon was also a destination in Motorcycle Mania 3, a feature that aired on the Discovery Channel, which featured Jesse James of West Coast Choppers riding with singer Kid Rock, on two custom-built motorcycles.

The name was a combination of Vince Everett, Elvis Presley's character in Jailhouse Rock, ( which Cocker misheard as Vance ) and country singer Eddy Arnold.

Announcements by various celebrities that they had contracted HIV ( including actor Rock Hudson, basketball star Magic Johnson, tennis player Arthur Ashe and singer Freddie Mercury ) were significant in making the general public aware of the dangers of the disease to people of all sexual orientations.

In June 1970, after Stonehill graduated from Leigh High School, in San Jose, California, he moved to Los Angeles where he stayed with pioneer Christian Rock singer, Larry Norman in an attempt to launch his professional music career.

Since Norman's first professional release in 1967 as a lead singer of the one-hit wonder band People !, more than 100 of his own albums have been released through such commercial record labels as Capitol, MGM, Verve, and his own independent labels: One Way Records, Solid Rock Records, Street Level Records, and Phydeaux Records.

British Celtic Rock singer Sammy Horner wrote and released a song " Larry's Son " soon after Wallace went public with her claims.

In 1990, singer Paul Anka made the speech inducting Darin into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

* Jim Lindberg: singer of the South Bay Punk Rock Band Pennywise

* Elisabeth Maurus ( aka Lissie ), folk-rock singer and songwriter ; born in Rock Island

* Bobby Helms, writer and singer of Jingle Bell Rock

* Paul McCoy-Lead singer of the Christian Rock band 12 Stones.