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ROCK MUSIC
TIMELINE
1958
- The music and film career of Elvis Presley is interrupted when he is drafted into the Army and serves in Germany for two years.
- Cliff Richard hits #2 on the UK Charts with "Move It", considered to be the first rock and roll hit written and produced outside the U.S.
- Chart topping rock star Jerry Lee Lewis' career suffers when the press discovers he is married to his thirteen year old second cousin, Myra Gale Brown.
- The Stroll becomes rock and roll's first dance craze.
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