American rock there was a Garage rock/post-punk revival. The development of digital technology led to the development of new forms of digital electronic rock. The foundations of American rock music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a mixing together of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music; in addition to country and western. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, and is credited with first using the
Rock & Roll (The Velvet Underground song) has appeared in a number of films, including "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints", "Rock 'n' Roll High School" and "SLC Punk!" A clip of the Velvet Underground performing the song is played on completion of the Rock & Roll wonder in "Civilization IV". In addition, the quote about researching the technology "Radio," read by Leonard Nimoy, is "...then one fine morning she puts on a New York station... You know, her life was saved by rock & roll." The quote is credited to Lou Reed. Mitch Ryder's band, Detroit, which featured Lou Reed's future guitarist Steve Hunter, performed one