1. John Lennon
Through this role he changed the way pop music was conceived, he made it something that mattered, could take a stand, and "insinuated rock and roll into the realm of art."" ... In the early sixties, rock and roll music was on a decline; it in fact began to flatten out'. On the Billboard charts, rock and roll was no longer the mainstream of music. ... Some began to call rock and roll passé. In February 1962, the New York rock and roll radio station, WINS, played sixty-six straight hours of Frank Sinatra, as a death notice to rock and roll. ...
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