Although "officially" marks the birth of rock and roll with the
recording That’s All Right, Elvis Presley, historically both the music
and the name emerged recently. For many historians, the dawn of the
genre came with the song Rock around the clock, from Bill Haley and His
Comets, which was recorded on 12 April 1954-three months before King
made history.

Meanwhile, the term "rock and roll" (an expression of black slang to
refer to sexual intercourse) I started using the radio announcer Alan
Freed in 1952 to define some songs that play on his program, like Rock
the joint, Bill Haley’s just as well in the festivals that had started
to realize where groups that played R & B.

However, that view Elvis as the creator and leading advocate of the rock king has much to do with his personality, his voice, his charisma and thus represented from the beginning not only for music but for then popular culture, breaking schemes and transgressing moral and behavioral traditions.

But not everything in the ’50s revolved around Elvis, as the rock and roll was born and reaching other important figures to write chapters that touch them very important in the genesis of his story.

Within that list, which could be very long, include basic characters like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Didley, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Roy OrbisonEdie Cochran and The Everly Brothers, among many others.

The rise of this first generation of rock and roll came to 1956-57, and would be the same Elvis that mark their decline when in 1958 he enlisted in the United States Army, where he remained until 1960. While his popularity was his return to the skies, his music stopped having that burden of rebellion and coolness with which young people identified years earlier. The rock was ready to undergo its first transformation.