The death of rock | Sam Leith

So Neil Young was wrong. "Rock and roll will never die," the whiny-voiced old coot told us, and we believed him. But now along comes Paul Gambaccini, the self-styled "Professor of Pop", to announce that, since only three rock songs appeared in last year's top 100 singles, the genre has expired."It is the end of the rock era. It's over, in the same way the jazz era is over," Gambaccini said, dancing on the grave of Ronnie James Dio like some demented Mr Punch. "That doesn't mean there will be no ...

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