![]() & B., gospel, jazz, blues, and rock and roll. In his childhood and adolescence, he stayed up through the night, his head by the radio, absorbing everything being broadcast from nearby Duluth and from fifty-thousand-watt stations throughout the Midwest and the Deep South: R. ![]() 1 Billboard hit with “Heartbreak Hotel” Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra did, too, with “Lisbon Antigua.” But kids knew what spoke to them, and it wasn’t “Lisbon Antigua.” Robert Zimmerman, a pompadoured fifteen-year-old living in the Minnesota Iron Range town of Hibbing, was one of countless kids who went out and put together a rock-and-roll band. Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm had broken through five years earlier with a jump-blues hit called “Rocket 88”-a credible candidate for the ur-rock tune-but crooners and big-band acts lingered on the pop charts. In 1956, rock and roll was busy being born.
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