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Venus: The Role Of Women In Fifties Music

John Pidgeon, History of Rock, The, 1981

APART FROM the amiable and avuncular Bill Haley, the most memorable figures of the first years of rock'n'roll presented an aggressively sexual, flamboyant, even threatening image. Not surprisingly, perhaps, they were also male.

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