Rock 'n' Roll (1959)

1h 20m
Running Time

October 30, 1959
Release Date

Rock 'n' Roll (1959)

1h 20m
Running Time

October 30, 1959
Release Date

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Plot.

Showcasing the cream of Australian rock'n'roll performers of the era, the film features Johnny O'Keefe, Col Joye, Johnny Devlin, The Delltones, Johnny Rebb, Lonnie Lee, The Graduates, The Crescents and Warren Williams performing at the iconic Sydney Stadium for one of Gordon's 1959 'Big Shows', in front of thousands of fans.

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Release Date
October 30, 1959

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 20m

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Rock 'n' Roll is a 1959 Australian rock and roll concert film filmed at Sydney Stadium during the Lee Gordon's Rock 'n' Roll Spectacular shows, directed by Lee Robinson. Performers include Johnny O'Keefe, The Delltones, The Devils and Johnny Devlin. All acts are from either Australia or New Zealand. American singer Fabian's performance was also shot, but this was cut from the Australian version of the film as the producers did not wish to pay the fee his management requested. They did, however, discreetly keep the Fabian sequence intact in some versions of the film that were sent to New Zealand.

The film is the only full-length rock'n'roll concert film from the 1950s shot anywhere in the world. It was considered lost media for decades until March 2020, when a print of the Australian version (sans Fabian) was discovered by Mark Iaria in a suitcase on a nature strip in the suburbs of Melbourne. The print was eventually restored to excellent condition, digitised and screened around Australia from 2021, then uploaded to YouTube in 2024. Rock 'n' Roll is in the public domain, having fallen out of copyright in the 2010s.

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