Question: In which year did Lawrence Fishburne play an early pioneer of of fifties rock and roll?
Sentence (from "Funk rock"): James Brown and others declared that Little Richard and his mid-1950s road band, The Upsetters, were the first to put the funk in the rock and roll beat, with a biographer stating that their music "spark[ed] the musical transition from fifties rock and roll to sixties funk".
Relevant evidence: No