1950s American Rock’n’Roll Extracts Taken from Derek Shelmerdine’s book Rock’n’Roll Unravelled. Story of rock’n’roll from its roots to mid-1970s punk – 1950s American RocknRoll Extracts. American RocknRoll Story: these extracts are from Derek Shelmerdine‘s book Rock’n’Roll Unravelled. (Please note, there is much more information in the book, this is simply to give a flavour of…