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It is hard to imagine where we would be without the advent of rock and roll, but when those rebellious sounds first emerged onto the airwaves back in the 1950s, the rest of the musical establishment didn\u2019t quite know how to react. For Frank Sinatra<\/a>, the chosen reaction was one of dismissal and disgust. <\/p>\n That anti-rock reaction perhaps shouldn\u2019t have come as much of a surprise, though. After all, Sinatra was already firmly on the upper echelon of the American music scene by the time that the likes of Elvis Presley and Little Richard arrived on the scene, and his velvety crooning was deemed far more mature and substantial than the pithy two-minute rock songs that began populating the charts. <\/p>\n Upon its initial introduction, rock was viewed as little more than an adolescent fad, in the same way that the flapper jazz of the 1920s had been, so nobody \u2013 and especially not \u2018Ol\u2019 Blue Eyes\u2019 \u2013 was expecting it to snowball into the dominant musical genre, still commanding the attention of the masses over half a century later. <\/p>\n During one interview with Western World back in 1957, Sinatra espoused the extent of his resentment for rock and roll\u2019s emergence, declaring, \u201cIt fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people. It smells phoney and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons.\u201d That particular quote is certainly not awash with ambiguity over the crooner\u2019s view of rock music<\/a>, but there was one figure who drew his ire more than most: Elvis Presley.\u00a0<\/p>\n