Rock & Roll would've NEVER been born if the electric guitar had never been invented.
The electric revolutionized the Blues, as well as other important genres like Jazz, Country & Western etc.
Charlie Christian was one of the first jazzmen to take up the electric guitar. When a youngster named Miles Davis heard Christian playing on the radio, he decided he wanted to be a jazz musician himself.
When some kids named Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Keith Richards heard Scotty Moore playing his electric in "Heartbreak Hotel", they all decided then and there that they wanted to be rock musicians. Specifically GUITARISTS.
The electric guitar gave Country & Western music a much more powerful, upbeat sound in the 1950's, causing it to evolve to a much higher state. It is now one of the most popular music genres in the world, with an enormous fanbase in Europe, Asia and the Latin world.
And the rest is history. So the answer is quite obvious.
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