First Rock and Roll Record recorded

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3 March, 1951

The world’s first rock and roll record, “Rocket 88”, was recorded by Jackie Brenston with Ike Turner and his band on 3rd March 1951. It was at Sam Phillips’s recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.