. "304007"^^ . . "141.0"^^ . "6"^^ . . . "0.786182"^^ . . . . . "1970-04-15" . "Lou Reed" . "a96ff12c-41aa-40ff-aa66-995d4e305220" . . "1976" . . "false"^^ . . "false"^^ . "false"^^ . "The Runaways songs" . . "eng" . "The Velvet Underground" . "Rock & Roll" . "USWWW0126708" . . "366000.0"^^ . "PT366.18555555S"^^ . . . . "-10.1"^^ . "2007-01-01"^^ . "Songs about music" . "-0.169163"^^ . . . "5714dee925ac0d8aee5528cf" . . "english" . "1559" . . "1970 songs" . "Atlantic Records" . "The Velvet Underground songs" . "Cotillion Records" . . "Kim Fowley" . "1111680" . "2"^^ . . "%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." . . "Songs written by Lou Reed" . . "Rock & Roll" . "-0.490907"^^ .