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ANSWER If one was to try to nail down a year, it would be 1954-55 when Bill Haley recorded Rock Around the Clock. It stayed on the charts for over a year, and sold 15 million copies world wide. It also started Rock and Roll.

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In 1990 by African American i the south, and it give birth by blues and by people like T-Bone Walker. Bill Haley did not made rock and roll. just becouse he was white and allowed to record, the oppertunity African American didn't had at that time. Rock & Roll was Protest music, for the African American people of Hattiesbourg, Mississippi.

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Arguably 1955: Chuck Berry - Maybellene.

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