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While we have said 'Rock n Roll' was here to stay, well unfortunately it wasn't. It

actually got killed off in the very late 1950s and early 1960s by a whole range of

factors, including direct US Government action, to suppress this 'subversive music'.

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But it was not completely dead. It was soon re-introduced in a morphed much more

sophisticated form by the British Rock Invasion led by the Beatles in 1963-64.

From then on Rock n Roll continued to grow like wildfire in the US. It became much

more widespread, artistic, sophisticated and split into many different sub-genres.

In other words, like a ghost from the past or a phoenix rising, Rock n Roll, in all its

new forms became known simply first as Rock, but of course was also sub-labeled.

As such, Rock dominated Western Popular culture from the mid sixties on - until it was

challenged for such dominance by different musical cultures such as Disco and

Rap and Hip Hop, and others. But with Grunge, Rock n Roll still persisted and still

persists today. Therefore 'Rock' is really an umbrella term for all the forms and more

sophisticated variants of Rock n Roll that developed in the sixties and seventies in the

US and the UK.