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| A Rock and Roll Chronicle | |
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| Life Could Be a Dream | |
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| December 28, 1947: "Good Rockin' Tonight" | |
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| October 29, 1949: Red Hot and Blue | |
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| April 1950: Fender Guitars | |
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| Winter 1950-1951: "The Tennessee Waltz" | |
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| Winter 1950-1951: "Teardrops From My Eyes" | |
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| 1951: Top 40 | |
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| March 21, 1952: The Moondog Coronation Ball | |
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| August 1952: "Kansas City" | |
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| Summer 1953: Elvis Hears Voices | |
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| March 15, 1954: "Sh-Boom" | |
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| July 30, 1954: Elvis Discovers His Body | |
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| November 24, 1954: Copyrighting "Rock and Roll" | |
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| Spring 1955: Blackboard Jungle | |
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| Rock and Roll Music | |
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| March 15, 1955: "Ain't It a Shame" | |
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| May 21, 1955: "Maybellene" | |
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| September 14, 1955: "Tutti Frutti" | |
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| November 1955: "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" | |
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| December 19, 1955: "Blue Suede Shoes" | |
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| All Shook Up | |
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| June 5, 1956: Elvis From the Waist Down | |
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| March 25, 1957: Ricky Nelson Impresses His Girlfriend | |
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| August 5, 1957: American Bandstand | |
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| October 21, 1957: Jailhouse Rock | |
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| October 15, 1958: "Lonely Teardrops" | |
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| November 22, 1959: Payola | |
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| May 12, 1960: Elvis Comes Home | |
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| Glad All Over | |
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| November 9, 1961: Brian Epstein Enters the Cavern | |
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| 1961-1962: Robert Johnson: King of the Delta Blues Singers | |
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| September 4, 1962: "How Do You Do It?" | |
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| April 28, 1963: Andrew Loog Oldham Enters the Crawdaddy Club | |
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| November 11, 1963: BEATLEMANIA! | |
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| July 25, 1965: Dylan Goes Electric | |
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| October-November 1965: Rubber Soul | |
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| Break on Through | |
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| December 4, 1965: The Acid Test | |
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| February 8-13, 1966: Andy Warhol, Up-Tight | |
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| June 1, 1967: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | |
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| June 16-18, 1967: Monterey Pop | |
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| June 7, 1968: "Sympathy for the Devil" | |
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| 1970-1971: What's Going On | |
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| July 3, 1971: The End | |
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| Stairway to Heaven | |
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| July 9, 1972: Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | |
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| 1972-1973: The Harder They Come | |
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| August 1, 1973: American Graffiti | |
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| October 1975: Rock and Roll Future | |
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| December 2, 1976: "Anarchy in the U.K." | |
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| August 16, 1977: My Way | |
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| Epilogue: "No Future" | |
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| Notes and Discographies | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |