Detroit rock is the name for a style of Australianindie rock, particularly popular in Sydney in the 1980s.
The style was popularised and heavily influenced by Radio Birdman, who formed in Sydney but were led by Deniz Tek, a Detroit, Michigan native, and also influenced by such Detroit bands as the Stooges and the MC5.
Rock and roll (also spelled rock 'n' roll, especially in its first decade), is a genre of music that emerged as a defined musical style in American South in the 1950s, and quickly spread to the rest of the country, and the world.
Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in America in the 1950s, though elements of rock and roll can be heard in rhythm and blues records as far back as the 1920s.
Early rock and roll combined elements of blues, boogie woogie, jazz and rhythm and blues, and is also influenced by traditional Appalachian folk music, gospel and country and western.