Is this a fair bullet-point breakdown?:
Does that sound reasonable?
- When rock first came on the scene in the US, it was pretty wild and untamed: Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Elvis Presley and so on.
- Sometime in the late 50s/early 60s it became more bubble-gummish and tamer (Jan and Dean for example -- this isn't necessarily a value judgment: there was some great pop-rock from that phase).
- In the early 60s, British groups rediscovered the wildness and brought it back to America and the rest is history.
Does that sound reasonable?
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