Laura Barton: Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll

American porches represent life on the cusp of something – adulthood, love, or the home itself. This frontier is where rock'n'roll happensI'm not precisely sure when I became aware of the significance of the porch in rock'n'roll, but I would hazard a guess that it began sometime around 1984, when Bryan Adams released Summer of '69."Standing on your momma's porch," sang my favourite verse, "You told me that you'd wait forever/ And when you held my hand/ I knew that it was now or never." The p...

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