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 and Roll Queen Hoople's work: ""Rock and Roll Queen" ... omits 'Sweet Angeline' [from Mott's fourth album "Brain Capers"] and includes 'Keep A Knockin' but is otherwise a fair sampler of the band's Atlantic era." Vocals on all tracks by Ian Hunter, except as noted. Rock and Roll Queen Rock and Roll Queen is a compilation album by the British rock band Mott the Hoople. The album predominantly features selections from the four albums Mott recorded for Island Records in the UK, which were subsequently issued in the US by Atlantic Records. In Canada, the first three were released by Polydor, while "Brain