The Story of America's First Integrated Rock - N - Roll Band

By John La Torre

If You're interested in Rock - N - Roll from the 1950's then this book is for you. John describes a historical account of his band, Johnny La Torre and the Rhythm Rockets and bands prior to their coming together. Get taken back to a time when Elvis, Bill Haley and the Comets and other big names were just some of the bands and musical personalities Rhythm Rockets was competing against! Complete with illustrations, John takes you through a chronolgical story of how his band came to be and all the trials in between. Be inspired as John shares his careful account of rubbing elbows with the big names, but more importantly the big success him and his band members achieve by being the very first professional, racially integrated, rock - n - roll band in the United States.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Mar 24, 2017
• ISBN: 9781483597966