Jisho

The beginning of Rock n Roll - Emerson Kitamura.

Thanks for replying, Beelzebubbles, but I meant the text in the video itself. The 3 vertical lines of text.

Yes, that is what I translated.

Yes, that's all the text says.

Thank you both. My apologies for misunderstanding.... I knew the text under the video said 'the origins/beginning of rock & roll', it's just I cannot make sense of the katakana in the first 2 lines of the video. Never mind, I'll just keep studying and one day it may make sense to me ;)

First line is
ロックンロールの
second line
はじまりは
and third line
エマーソン北村

the writing is read from top to bottom starting with the most-right "column"
the second line / column doesn't even have any katakana

Thanks, Fredora... Silly me, I read it from top to bottom but from left to right. How embarrassing.

Yes, about the katakana, I meant 1st and 3rd line (or 3rd and 1st ;).