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... [+]Loading...["What He Wants... (comic story)"]) It was an art form of the 20th century. (PROSE: The King of Terror [+]Loading...["The King of Terror (novel)"]) 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 [+]Loading...["Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)"], Delta and the Bannermen [+]Loading...["Delta and the Bannermen (TV story)"])
Rock and roll was not punk. (PROSE: No Future [+]Loading...["No Future (novel)"])
Bands[[edit] | [edit source]]
Johnny Chester was known for his rock and roll music, who supposedly wrote a decent song about football. (PROSE: The King of Terror [+]Loading...["The King of Terror (novel)"])
Bob Decker described The Beatles' music as rock and roll music. (PROSE; The Devil Goblins from Neptune [+]Loading...["The Devil Goblins from Neptune (novel)"])
The Fall and New Order were described as rock and roll music. (PROSE: The Hollow Men [+]Loading...["The Hollow Men (novel)"])
Mark Carville described John Smith and the Common Men as a rock'n'roll band. (AUDIO: 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men [+]Loading...["1963: Fanfare for the Common Men (audio story)"])
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 [+]Loading...["1963: Fanfare for the Common Men (audio story)"])
Music[[edit] | [edit source]]
Ethan Amberglass claimed Ace's grandparents said rock and roll sounded like noise. (PROSE: The Algebra of Ice [+]Loading...["The Algebra of Ice (novel)"])
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 [+]Loading...["Father Time (novel)"])
Cultural[[edit] | [edit source]]
While talking to Benny Markhano described archaeology as "the new rock and roll". (PROSE: Beige Planet Mars [+]Loading...["Beige Planet Mars (novel)"])
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 [+]Loading...["Deadly Reunion (novel)"])
"Ready to rock and roll?" was a colloquialism used on Earth as question of readiness to perform a task. (TV: Delta and the Bannermen [+]Loading...["Delta and the Bannermen (TV story)"], PROSE: Escape Velocity [+]Loading...["Escape Velocity (novel)"]) It was also used an exclamation as well as a signal for readiness. (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad [+]Loading...["Return of the Living Dad (novel)"])
Elton Pope used rock 'n' roll as an example to justify his naming of LINDA (London Investigation 'N'Detective Agency). (TV: Love & Monsters [+]Loading...["Love & Monsters (TV story)"])
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 [+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"])
Weapons[[edit] | [edit source]]
The DJ on Necros used an ultrasonic beam that fired rock and roll. (TV: Revelation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)"])
