"Rock and Roll smells phoney and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons.... and by means of its almost imbecile reiteration and sly, lewd - in fact, plain dirty - lyrics, it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth. It is the most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has ever been my misfortune to hear" (Frank Sinatra in 1957)