He and his sister became child stars in the 1950s by making exuberantly unhinged music. “I had so much energy,” he said, “they didn’t know what to do with me.” By Bill Friskics-Warren Larry Collins, ...

Billy Adams, a Rockabilly Hall of Famer who wrote and recorded the mid-1950s rockabilly staple “Rock, Pretty Mama,” died March 30 in Westmoreland, Tenn. He was 79. Clif Doyal, Mr. Adams’s publicist ...

During a 1968 interview with Rolling Stone, Townshend discussed the sort of rock songs he enjoyed. “The rock ‘n’ roll songs I like, of course, are songs like ‘Summertime Blues,’ man that’s beautiful,” ...

When the modern world was born, Jerry Lee Lewis was there. During that heady spurt of mid-1950s generational rebellion, Lewis and his pompadoured peers invented rock ‘n’ roll and became footloose ...