Rock and roll

Rock and roll, sometimes contracted to rock'n'roll, was a musical style that developed out of the Delta blues. Robert Johnson was one of its pioneers. (COMIC: What He Wants...) It was an art form of the 20th century. (PROSE: The King of Terror) The 1950s was considered the era of rock and roll, 1959 was considered by the Tollmaster to be the "rock and roll years". (TV: Revelation of the Daleks, Delta and the Bannermen)
Rock and roll was not punk. (PROSE: No Future)
== Bands ==
Johnny Chester was known for his rock and roll music, who supposedly wrote a decent song about football. (PROSE: The King of Terror)
Bob Decker described The Beatles' music as rock and roll music. (PROSE; The Devil Goblins from Neptune)
The Fall and New Order were described as rock and roll music. (PROSE: The Hollow Men)
Mark Carville described John Smith and the Common Men as a rock'n'roll band. (AUDIO: 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men
Lenny Kruger was the (premier) manager of rock'n'roll acts in New York in an alternate timeline where The Beatles never formed. (AUDIO: 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men
== Music ==
Ethan Amberglass claimed Ace's grandparents said rock and roll sounded like noise. (PROSE: The Algebra of Ice)
Miranda Dawkins once tried to teach Bob to dance to a song about people having built a city on rock and roll. (PROSE: Father Time)
== Cultural ==
While talking to Benny Markhano described archaeology as "the new rock and roll". (PROSE: Beige Planet Mars)
In describing a music festival the Third Doctor described them as having "a natural hatred of any kind of authority…inflamed by sex, drugs and rock and roll". (PROSE: Deadly Reunion)
"Ready to rock and roll?" was a colloquialism used on Earth as question of readiness to perform a task. (TV: Delta and the Bannermen, PROSE: Escape Velocity) It was also used an an exclamation as well as a signal for readiness. (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad)
Elton Pope used rock 'n' roll as an example to justify his naming of LINDA (London Investigation NDetective Agency). (TV: Love & Monsters)
Meeting his first incarnation, the Twelfth Doctor referred to the fifteen hundred years which comprised the period between their first and fourteenth regenerations as "rock'n'roll". (TV: Twice Upon a Time)
== Weapons ==
The DJ on Necros utilised a ultrasonic beam that fired rock and roll. (TV: Revelation of the Daleks)
== See also ==
* Rock music
* Punk
Category:Music from the real world