Rock & Roll and Language (was: 70s crap)

[Joe Varo]

On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Henry Musikar wrote:

> Rock & Roll, the Blues, a-& Jazz are the only things that I can 
> think of where the good ole, bad old USA still kicks international 
> butt. 
> [...]

This brings up something I wonder about every so often:  why is it that
Rock & Roll can seemingly be done only in one of the germanic languages,
and still sound like Rock & Roll? 

Think about it...have you ever heard rock in any of the romance languages?
You've got German (e.g. the Scorpions), Dutch (Golden Earring) and there
was a Swedish group....not ABBA....damn....oh....Roxette.  But I've never
heard of any french, italian or spanish rock & roll.

Joe