"The Twist" was already on the Billboard Hot 100 before Chubby Checker ever danced it on television. Evans needed a name.

Popular music in the 1960s was a magical thing. The songs were imbued with something fantastic and almost innocent. There was a joy to the sounds, to the industry itself, that doesn’t exist as much ...

Dances were a big craze in the early 1960s and one of the biggest forms of entertainment. While times have changed since then, these three rock songs from the early 1960s could still make anyone want ...

Firstly, a little background. According to The Harvard Crimson, The Rolling Stones went to see the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in Los Angeles sometime in the 1960s. The Stones found the Turners’ ...

When US rock'n'roll arrived in the UK in the mid-1950s, there were few places for British teenagers to dance to this exciting new genre. But by the early 1960s, dance venues specifically aimed at ...