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rock-'n'-roll

noun as in rock-and-roll

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Originally known for his music and wild rock 'n' roll antics, the British singer and his family moved to Los Angeles in the noughties and became the stars of their own trailblazing reality TV show, The Osbournes.

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“He’s worked with Paul McCartney and Dave Grohl and all the greats, and never was he like, ‘I’ve got some rock ’n’ roll stories for you,’” Armisen says.

Enriquez, a 2022 finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, has long been a kind of rock ’n’ roll maverick in the mode of Rachel Kushner — there are references to Joy Division, Nick Cave and AC/DC — but at heart she’s a moralist.

After leaving the band, he slunk into such musical obscurity that when Tom Waldman began to research what became his 1998 book “Land of a Thousand Dances: Chicano Rock ‘n’ Roll from Southern California,” the word was that the former Headhunter was already dead.

In 1965, Robert “Rabbit” Jaramillo and his friends were on the cusp of becoming rock ‘n’ roll royalty.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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