Chuck Berry, Meet Django

Rock’n’roll was once a working-class occupation. Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Billy Fury and Johnny Hallyday saw music as a way out and up, like sport, hell-fire preaching or trade union politics. That Fury and Hallyday didn’t grow up picking cotton or shining shoes mattered very little. They weren’t students of the music, but clung to it as unselfconsciously and with the same desperate energy as their mass audiences… producer Joe Boyd in the Guardian