"The Velvet Underground songs" . "The Runaways songs" . "Rock & Roll" . . . "Kim Fowley" . "-0.169163"^^ . "-0.490907"^^ . "567108"^^ . . . "-11.8"^^ . . . "USRH11503014" . . "1976" . "english" . "2"^^ . . . . "1970-04-15" . . "false"^^ . . . "1559" . "132.0"^^ . "false"^^ . . "Atlantic Records" . . "0.815191"^^ . "Songs written by Lou Reed" . . "The Velvet Underground" . . . "false"^^ . "a96ff12c-41aa-40ff-aa66-995d4e305220" . "283000.0"^^ . . . "2"^^ . "2005-03-29"^^ . . "PT285.6761678S"^^ . . . "eng" . . "Songs about music" . . "Rock & Roll" . "%22Rock & Roll%22 (sometimes spelled Rock 'n' Roll) is a song by the Velvet Underground, originally appearing on their 1970 album Loaded. The song was written by the Velvet's then-leader Lou Reed, who continued to incorporate the song into his own live performances years later as a solo artist.The song recounts the advent of rock & roll, telling the story of a girl named Jenny whose %22life was saved by rock and roll.\u201DIn the liner notes to the Velvet Underground's box set Peel Slowly and See, Lou Reed wrote, %22'Rock and Roll' is about me. If I hadn't heard rock and roll on the radio, I would have had no idea there was life on this planet. Which would have been devastating - to think that everything, everywhere was like it was where I come from. That would have been profoundly discouraging. Movies didn't do it for me. TV didn't do it for me. It was the radio that did it.%22The song also appears on the albums 1969: The Velvet Underground Live; Live MCMXCIII; Loaded: Fully Loaded Edition; American Poet; Another View; Rock 'n' Roll Animal; Live in Italy; Rock and Roll: an Introduction to The Velvet Underground.; Rock and Roll Diary: 1967\u20131980." . . "672152" . . "Lou Reed" . "5714dee925ac0d8aee55285d" . "Cotillion Records" . . "1970 songs" .