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From hipsters to historians, all eyes will be focused on the television over the next three nights, just as if it were the pre-internet 1950’s and 60’s again, as Yonge Street: Toronto Rock and Roll Stories premieres on Bravo this evening.
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Canadian electro-raunchy-vixen Peaches has spent the last year perfecting her role as the Lord Almighty in her performance of the 1970’s rock opera, "Jesus Christ Superstar".
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Cleveland -
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation has announced the Alice Cooper Band, Neil Diamond, Dr John, Darlene Love and Tom Waits as its 2011 performer inductees. The organization recognizes legends in the music industry from songwriters to soundmen.
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"That's All Right Mama" by Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup is the world's oldest rock-and-roll song. Southeastern Louisiana University rock historian Joseph Burns claims it was the first to contain all of the elements that are associated with rock and roll.
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Fifty years ago, Buddy Holly, 22, Jiles P Richardson - known as the Big Bopper - and Ritchie Valens, 17, died in a crash shortly after take-off from Clear Lake, Iowa.
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He was there from the beginning, a founding father of the world of rock and roll. Bo Diddley passed away on Monday at the age of 79 in Archer, Florida.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just got bigger with the induction of the Dave Clark Five, Madonna, John Mellencamp, Leonard Cohen, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff and the Ventures on Monday night.
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The king may be dead, but his image is still said to live on a very strange rock found in Estes, Park Colorado. Does it really bear the unmistakable profile of the king of rock and roll? Read on for the answer, but don’t be cruel.
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The lease was up on Dick Clark's American Bandstand Grill and Studio B dance club Overland Park. An auction was held as everything had to go.
$700 was paid for a table that had been autographed by Johnny Cash
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 Rock and roll veterans The Rolling Stones are heading back into the studio, according to guitarist Ronnie Wood.
 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame says six additional groups will be inducted this year after a committee determined they should be recognized with their previously enshrined original lead singers.
The original line-up of rock band Guns N' Roses will come together in April to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame.
British band Kasabian say it is only a matter of time before rock music returns to the forefront of popular culture, despite the recent dominance of female solo artists such as Adele.
 On their way into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Guns N' Roses got together for one more gig. Axl Rose missed it.
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