- the term "rock 'n' roll" was first used by DJ Alan Freed on air from his Cleveland radio station.
- Later, Freed was prosecuted for accepting payola and was shunned by the music industry.
- Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers was one of the first bands to be targeted to teenagers. They released the song Why Do Fools Fall in Love? in 1956 when their lead singer was only 13 years old.
- In the 1960s, "rock 'n' roll" was renamed "rock" to appeal to a wider audience.
- Big Mama Thorton released Hound Dog in 1953. It was a song about a man who cheats. Elvis Presley released his version in 1956, changing the lyrics to literally refer to a hound dog.
- Elvis was the bestselling solo artist ever.
- The Twist was a B-side of an R&B record by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters. It was released in 1959.
- In 1960 it was covered so closely by Chubby Checker that when Ballard first heard it he thought it was his own voice singing.
- The Beatles album Rubber Soul inspired Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds. In turn, the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was inspired by the Beach Boys.
- James Brown recordings are sampled by hip-hop musicians more than any other artist.
- Rastafarianism is founded on the idea that the 1930 King of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I, is the redeemer reincarnated. Selassie rejected this title, but this was seen as modesty, which is a trait the Messiah would have.
- Selassie was an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian.
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