Rock 'n' roll, in its few years of existence, is perhaps the only music genre that became a way of life. It showed new paths in other arts, created new ones, played with fashion, liberated sexuality, experimented with drugs, died and came back to life, assimilated new elements, was bought and sold by the system it resisted. In other forms of art, the artist displays himself and behaves as if he is the center of the world. In rock (and in all its genres and subcategories) this is done both by the artist and by his audience, which grows long hair or shaves their heads, dresses in wide colorful clothes or tight monochrome ones, reacts to major social problems, opposes wars, travels to distant countries, philosophizes. 

If it were a person, it would definitely be someone who showed teenage naivety throughout his life, doing whatever he could to live exactly as he wanted. Rock tried to change society and bring it to its own standards, just as society tried to bring it to its own... This book deals with exactly that: rock 'n' roll stories within the human society of the 20th century. From Elvis and Vince Taylor (in the 1950s), to Arthur Brown, Steve Marriott (Small Faces and Humble Pie), Wilko Johnson (Dr. Feelgood), Robert Wyatt and the early years of punk with the Ruts, Steve Jones (Sex Pistols), Poison Girls and Stiv Bators (Dead Boys and Lords of the New Church)...