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ROCK MUSIC
TIMELINE
1960
- Teen tragedy songs are popular.
- In a real life tragedy, American rock star Eddie Cochran is killed in a UK car accident.
- Elvis Presley returns from military service in Germany and continues to score hits with a less rock, more "adult" sound.
- Chubby Checker starts a nationwide dance craze with his cover of Hank Ballard's song "The Twist".
- Joan Baez emerges from the Greenwich Village folk scene with her first album.
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