Incendiary sounds shooting like fireworks off the strings of an electric guitar have defined pop music around the world for 70 years. Credit Adolph Rickenbacker (1887-1976) for this world-wide wonder ...

From baseball and television to air conditioning and Coca-Cola, the United States has offered the world no shortage of contributions. Few of those contributions, however, can hold a candle to the one ...

Get ready to rock because we are going through the history of guitar smashing! Who was the first rocker to smash a guitar? And how did destroying instruments onstage become a rock 'n' roll rite of ...

In the spring of 1954, when the nation’s top record was Perry Como’s “Wanted” and the top album was the soundtrack from the movie The Glenn Miller Story, a new musical style was germinating. Bill ...

Duane Eddy, who died April 30 at age 86, was the first rock ’n’ roll guitar hero. His unique twangy guitar lines were among the most truly distinctive sounds in the history of rock guitar; whenever ...

The 1950s saw rock ‘n’ roll burst onto the scene and change music forever. From Elvis Presley’s hip-shaking performances that scandalized parents and drove teens wild to Chuck Berry’s epic guitar ...