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The Six Songs that Define Rock and Roll?
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Tags: Rock and Roll, Beatles, Hendrix, Clapton, Sex Pistols, Prince, Little Richard
In his great book "Your Brain on Music", Daniel Levitin says that when an 80-year old psychoacoustics professor asked him to bring six rock and roll songs to dinner one evening - six that would explain everything he needed to learn about rock and roll (he knew nothing, but he had heard Elvis, so he said "you don't need to cover that"), Levitin brought....
| | Long Tall Sally (Little Richard) |
| | Roll Over Beethoven (the Beatles) |
| | All Along the Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix) |
| | Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton) |
| | Little Red Corvette (Prince) |
| | Anarchy in the UK (The Sex Pistols) |
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