Øystein Greni
Øystein Greni( born 15 June 1974 in Oslo) is the singer and lead guitar player of the Norwegian rock and roll band BigBang.
Carl Perkins
Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998) was an American singer-songwriter who recorded most notably at the Sun Studio, in Memphis, beginning in 1954.
Amongst his best-known songs are "Blue Suede ShoesMatchbox" and
"Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby".
According to Charlie Daniels, "Carl Perkins' songs personified the rockabilly era, and Carl Perkins' sound personifies the rockabilly sound more so than anybody involved in it, because he never changed.
" Perkins's songs were recorded by artists (and friends) as influential as Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash and Eric Clapton which further established his place in the history of popular music.
Paul McCartney claimed that "if there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles."
Called "the King of Rockabilly", he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, the Memphis Music Hall of Fame, and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
He also received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award.
Billy Milano
Billy Milano is a Bronx- born heavy metal musician now based in Austin, Texas.
He is the singer and- occasionally- guitarist and bassist of crossover thrash band M.O.D., and he was also the singer of its predecessor, Stormtroopers of Death.
He was also the singer of United Forces, which also featured his Stormtroopers of Death bandmate Dan Lilker.
Birth of Rock and Roll
"Birth of Rock and Roll" is a 1986 song written by Carl Perkins and Greg Perkins.
The song was featured on the "Class of '55" album which included performances with Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Jerry Lee Lewis. "
Birth of Rock and Roll" was released as a 7" single with a picture sleeve, 885 760-7, on the Smash/America label copyrighted by PolyGram Records produced by Chips Moman.
The single reached no. 31 on the "Billboard" country chart and no. 44 on the Canadian country chart in 1986.
The B side was "Rock and Roll
(Fais-Do-Do)" which featured Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Roy Orbison.
The theme of the song “Birth of Rock and Roll" is about how "Memphis gave birth to rock and roll" in the 1950s at Sun Records.
A video of the song was also made featuring Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones as they drove to the historic Sun studios in Memphis, Tennessee in a white Cadillac convertible.
Malcolm Leo
Malcolm Leo is an American film director and producer best known for directing documentaries about Elvis Presley(" This Is Elvis"), about The Beach Boys and about some of the important figures in the history of rock and roll(" Heroes of Rock and Roll").
Leo is currently working on a documentary about Jerry Garcia based on a three- hour interview he recorded in 1987.
Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson Berry( October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music.
Nicknamed the" Father of Rock and Roll", Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with songs such as" Maybellene"( 1955)," Roll Over Beethoven"( 1956)," Rock and Roll Music"( 1957) and" Johnny B. Goode"( 1958).
Writing lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism, and developing a music style that included guitar solos and showmanship, Berry was a major influence on subsequent rock music.
Born into a middle- class African- American family in St. Louis, Missouri, Berry had an interest in music from an early age and gave his first public performance at Sumner High School.
While still a high school student he was convicted of armed robbery and was sent to a reformatory, where he was held from 1944 to 1947.
After his release, Berry settled into married life and worked at an automobile assembly plant.
By early 1953, influenced by the guitar riffs and showmanship techniques of the blues musician T- Bone Walker, Berry began performing with the Johnnie Johnson Trio.
His break came when he traveled to Chicago in May 1955 and met Muddy Waters, who suggested he contact Leonard Chess, of Chess Records.
With Chess, he recorded" Maybellene" — Berry's adaptation of the country song" Ida Red" — which sold over a million copies, reaching number one on" Billboard" magazine's rhythm and blues chart.
By the end of the 1950s, Berry was an established star, with several hit records and film appearances and a lucrative touring career.
He had also established his own St. Louis nightclub, Berry's Club Bandstand.
However, he was sentenced to three years in prison in January 1962 for offenses under the Mann Act—he had transported a 14- year- old girl across state lines.
After his release in 1963, Berry had several more hits, including" No Particular Place to GoYou Never Can Tell", and" Nadine".
But these did not achieve the same success, or lasting impact, of his 1950s songs, and by the 1970s he was more in demand as a nostalgic performer, playing his past hits with local backup bands of variable quality.
However, in 1972 he reached a new level of achievement when a rendition of" My Ding- a- Ling" became his only record to top the charts.
His insistence on being paid in cash led in 1979 to a four- month jail sentence and community service, for tax evasion.
Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986; he was cited for having" laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance."
Berry is included in several of" Rolling Stone" magazine's" greatest of all time" lists; he was ranked fifth on its 2004 and 2011 lists of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll includes three of Berry's:" Johnny B. GoodeMaybellene", and" Rock and Roll Music".
Berry's" Johnny B. Goode" is the only rock- and- roll song included on the Voyager Golden Record.
Pete Johnson (rock critic)
Pete Johnson was a music critic for the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s, before being replaced by Robert Hilburn in 1970.
In 1969 he wrote" The History of Rock and Roll", and appeared in another rockumentary," Pop Chronicles."
In writing" The History of Rock and Roll" documentary, Johnson said" I included nearly every record I ever rem[ em] ber hearing".
Joe Negroni
Joe Negroni (September 9, 1940 – September 5, 1978) was an American singer of Puerto Rican descent.
He was a rock and roll pioneer and founding member of the rock and roll group Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers.
Chris Robinson (singer)
Christopher Mark Robinson( born December 20, 1966) is an American musician.
He is the singer of the rock and roll band
The Black Crowes, is the brother of its guitarist Rich Robinson, and is the vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the Chris Robinson Brotherhood
Rock and Roll Music
" Rock and Roll Music" is a 1957 hit single written and recorded by rock and roll star Chuck Berry.
The song has been widely covered and is recognized as one of Berry's most popular and enduring compositions.
In the fall of 1957, his recording reached number 6 on" Billboard" magazine's R&B Singles chart and number 8 on its Hot 100 chart.
The song has been recorded by many well- known artists.
The Beatles' 1964 recording topped singles charts in Europe and in Australia, and the Beach Boys had a U.S. top ten hit with the song in 1976.
Other artists who have covered the song include Bill Haley& His Comets, Dickie Rock and the Miami Showband, REO Speedwagon, Mental As Anything, Humble Pie, Manic Street Preachers, and Bryan Adams.
Berry performed it on December 16, 1957, on ABC's short- lived variety program" The Guy Mitchell Show".
In 2004," Rolling Stone" magazine ranked Berry's version number 128 on its list of the" 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
The song is also included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's" 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll".
Recently recorded by Rick Dare and the Rusty Rockers of Maffra Victoria Australia

Question: When did the performer of song Birth Of Rock And Roll die?
Answer: January 19, 1998