Editing Rock music (section)

===Global spread===
{{Main|British rock and roll|skiffle}}
[[File:TommySteele 1958.jpg|thumb|British rock and roll singer [[Tommy Steele]] in a March 1958 promotional photo]]
Rock quickly spread out from its origins in the US, associated with the rapid [[Americanization]] that was taking place globally in the aftermath of the [[Second World War]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Horn |first1=Adrian |title=Juke Box Britain: Americanisation and Youth Culture, 1945–60 |date=2009 |publisher=Manchester University Press |location=Manchester |isbn=978-0719083662}}</ref> [[Cliff Richard]] is credited with one of the first rock and roll hits outside of North America with "[[Move It]]" (1959), effectively ushering in the sound of [[British rock]].<ref>D. Hatch and S. Millward (1987). ''From Blues to Rock: An Analytical History of Pop Music''. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 78. {{ISBN|0-7190-1489-1}}.</ref> Several artists, most prominently [[Tommy Steele]] from the UK, found success with [[cover version|covers]] of major American rock and roll hits before the recordings could spread internationally, often translating them into local languages where appropriate.<ref name="Mitchell Steele">Mitchell, G. A. M. (2011). "A Very 'British' Introduction to Rock 'n' Roll: Tommy Steele and the Advent of Rock 'n' Roll Music in Britain, 1956–1960". ''Contemporary British History'', 25(2), 205–225.</ref><ref name="Meyers 15">Meyers, J. P. (2015). "The Beatles in Buenos Aires, Muse in Mexico City: Tribute Bands and the Global Consumption of Rock Music". ''Ethnomusicology Forum'' (Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 329–348). Routledge.</ref> Steele in particular toured Britain, Scandinavia, Australia, the USSR and South Africa from 1955 to 1957, influencing the globalisation of rock.<ref name="Mitchell Steele" /> [[Johnny O'Keefe]]'s 1958 record "[[Wild One (Johnny O'Keefe song)|Wild One]]" was one of the earliest Australian rock and roll hits.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Barnaby |date=30 September 2014 |title=The Wild One by Johnny O'Keefe – Australia's first rock'n'roll hit |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/australia-culture-blog/2014/sep/30/the-wild-one-by-johnny-okeefe-australias-first-rocknroll-hit |access-date=18 April 2024 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> By the late 1950s, as well as in the American-influenced Western world, rock was popular in communist states such as Yugoslavia,<ref>Vuletic, D. (2008). "Generation Number One: Politics and Popular Music in Yugoslavia in the 1950s". ''Nationalities Papers'', 36(5), 861–879.</ref> and the USSR,<ref>Rauth, R. (1982). "Back in the USSR—Rock and roll in the Soviet Union". ''Popular Music & Society'', 8(3–4), 3–12.</ref> as well as in regions such as South America.<ref name="Meyers 15" />

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, U.S. [[blues music]] and [[blues rock]] artists, who had been surpassed by the rise of rock and roll in the US, found new popularity in the UK, visiting with successful tours.<ref name=Schwartz2007>{{cite book|last=Schwartz |first=Roberta F. |title=How Britain Got the Blues: The Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom |year=2007 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing |location=Aldershot, England |isbn=978-0-7546-5580-0 |page=22}}</ref> [[Lonnie Donegan]]'s 1955 hit "[[Rock Island Line (song)|Rock Island Line]]" was a major influence and helped to develop the trend of [[skiffle music]] groups throughout the country, many of which, including [[John Lennon]]'s [[The Quarrymen|Quarrymen]] (later [[the Beatles]]), moved on to play rock and roll.<ref>Roberts, J. (2001). ''The Beatles''. Mineappolis, MN: Lerner Publications. p. 13. {{ISBN|0-8225-4998-0}}.</ref> While former rock and roll market in the US was becoming dominated by lightweight pop and ballads, British rock groups at clubs and local dances were developing a style more strongly influenced by blues-rock pioneers, and were starting to play with an intensity and drive seldom found in white American acts;<ref name=Bogdanov2003BritishBlues>Eder, B. "British Blues", in V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra, S.T. Erlewine, eds, ''All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues'' (Milwaukee, WI: Backbeat Books, 3rd ed., 2003), p. 700. {{ISBN|0-87930-736-6}}.</ref> this influence would go on to shape the future of rock music through the [[British Invasion]].<ref name=Schwartz2007 />