High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rock`n`Roll Era was a 42-volume series issued by Time-Life during the 1980s and early 1990s, spotlighting songs from the early years of rock and roll era, primarily the pre-Beatles era of 1954-1964. The first major and successful rock music-intensive subscription music series released by Time-Life, songs on the series included music heard on mainstream contemporary hit radio stations of the late 1950s and early-to-mid 1960s.