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In reply to the discussion: 'How the Beatles Destroyed Rock-n-roll' Has anyone read this book? [View all]brush
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even came here on Ed Sullivan. White rock and rollers were considered derivative in the Black community as they covered black hits and got all the credit and publicity and money from music industry/media Pat Boone and that ilkeven the Beatles too with their cover of the Top Notes and Isley Brothers hit "Twist and Shout".
R&B and Rock and Roll split long before the Beatles stopped touring and the alleged evolution of Rock and Roll into Rock. It was a combination of black taste in music evolving along a more soulful line than white Rock and Roll and America being America and segregating and separating black from white and elevating white artists over black artists. Nothing new there.
An interesting side note: Jimi Hendrix played with the Isley Brothers before he became a star with his own rock group. And even Hendrix, the greatest rock guitarist, was not that big in the black community.