Both movies featured the hit "", which first entered the British charts in early 1955 — four months before it reached the — topped the British charts later that year and again in 1956, and helped identify rock and roll with teenage delinquency.
Many groups moved towards the of rock and roll and rhythm and blues from skiffle, like the who became , producing a form of rock and roll revivalism that carried them and many other groups to national success from about 1963 and to international success from 1964, known in America as the British Invasion.
The retirement of to become a preacher October 1957 , the departure of Presley for service in the March 1958 , the scandal surrounding ' marriage to his May 1958 , the deaths of , and in February 1959 , the breaking of the scandal implicating major figures, including , in bribery and corruption in promoting individual acts or songs November 1959 , the arrest of December 1959 , and the death of in a car crash April 1960 gave a sense that the initial phase of rock and roll had come to an end.
Further, built his ground-breaking sound of the same era with an uptempo blend of boogie-woogie, New Orleans rhythm and blues, and the soul and fervor of gospel music vocalization.