Looking Back At The Near-Death Of Rock-N-Roll

With this edition of our series, host Al Neff takes a quick look back at some of the events and circumstances that nearly silenced rock-n-roll just as it was gaining a stronghold within American culture. With Elvis Presley entering the Army as a draftee and the loss Buddy Holly to a plane crash in the late 1950s to go along with legal issues and controversies for Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis, this edition of the podcast details how the emerging art form of rock music was on the ropes in its earliest days.