Chuck Berry! Rock around the clock!! One of the best, and a favorite of mine as a kid - I remember you could still find it on the jukeboxes locally many decades later - worth every quarter to hear it play!
I hate it when some people laughs at old rock and roll music... latest musics (specially pop) are just derivatives of these... Long live rock and roll..
ADORO ESSE DOCUMENTÁRIO EU TENHO O DVD É DEMAIS ASSISTO TODO DIA COM A MINHA SOBRINHA DE NOVE ANOS ELA ADORA TB E SABE AS MUSICAS, ADORO BEATLES, GERRY, ROLING STONES, THE ANIMALS, CREAM,THE WHO ETC.
A first-rate review of the British Invasion, packed with loads of great clips and skillful narration. It's not perfect -- a few groups are given more running time than they proportionally deserve and there are some GLARING omissions, from The Dave Clark Five to The Moody Blues. But, on balance, A+ from me -- the guy who wrote "The History of Rock 'n' Roll."
Rock and Roll owes as much of it's origin to African rhythms & African-Americans, as to Irish sand dances & English folk songs. - it was the confluence of several streams of musical styles. The southern Gospel singing carried the African rhythms forward in America, as well as the railroad & cotton songs. Les Paul may have invented the electric guitar which revolutionized rock & roll, but truly the English took it to a level which changed the world forever!
In England, the punk movement of the 70's mirrored the skiffle craze of the 50's, in that both styles had a "do it yourself" ethic, which inspired a lot of British kids to start bands. Just as 1950's skiffle gave us The Beatles, 1970's punk gave us U2.
The full title of this documentary is "British Rock: the First Wave," produced, written, and directed by Patrick Montgomery and Pamela Page. Good luck with the paper . . .
American shows did that to. Like "Your hit parade" a radio show in the 40s that then went to tv in the 50s had a problem when rock and roll hit. They would have their own singers sing the new hit songs which worked fine with big band and early 50s music, but then when they started having to do Elvis Prestly it fell flat for the youth. They didn't want to hear edgy up beat rock tried to be done by older crooners that was watered down. Your hit Parade just didn't seem to get what the problem was. Anyway, the show was soon cancelled after such a long successful run.
Interesting! Perhaps Paul's long lost cousins roam the countryside then?? What a thought! Rock and Roll as the music that keeps bouncing back and forth across the ocean!!
@Khultan Granted not famous, it was the 60s the mainstream industry had a lot of bollocks to sort out and only signed female singers. My auntie played the banjo back then...like I said the guitar was not automatically the centrepice of skiffle. Lennon's mother tough him how to play, and most of the people who picked up a skiffle kit are anonymous nowadays as it was an underground scene. The actual performing was more popular with males, but the scene itself wasn't gender exclusive.
I keep trying to post the link for it, but I keep getting an "Error, try again!" message. You can buy it at the videobeat site - they have loads of classic rock, surf, JD, etc. DVDs available.
Hey loveoldsongs!! You're right he did look an awful lot like Burdon!! Gosh...those were the days!!...when the Animals were popular...I was just about to grow breast!! LOL!!
@Khultan There were ladies playing instruments back then...and skiffle was as much about the tea chest n washboard as the guitar, you can just have at the fuckers and they'll sound alright.
What a surprise, the camera pans out and - dwah?!?! - the geeky chic in the glasses is actually kinda hot ... hmmmm ... think I'd like to form a band with her called Milfen-Schwak, ah screw that, the two of us would just make, uh ... videos! ;P
Maybe before you make a comment like that you should go do some research. Not only is he known as "The Father of Rock & Roll" but he broke down the barriers that kept black entertainers segregated. He's not that great? What kind of music do you listen to? Listen to Johnny B. Goode a song which inspired a lot of guitar players. I can't make you like his music but maybe you should respect his contributions to Rock. He's one of the reasons it's still around today.
The problem with 1950s British rock music is that it's not rock and roll at all. American rock and roll had a solid foundation in southern R&B music. All of rock's pioneers like Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino, and Buddy Holly were influenced by it. This was why their music was so exciting, innovative, and creative. That R&B foundation was largely nonexistent in Britain. By the late 50s, America's rock pioneers were replaced with studio-made lilywhite, milquetoast "teen idols" like Frankie Avalon, Paul Anka, and Fabian. At the same time, British rock stars began to emerge and all of them were teenagers. British teens like Marty Wilde, Tommy Steele, Adam Faith, Billy Fury, Cliff Richard, etc. were manufactured to emulate their teenage American counterparts, so what you get is this incredibly bland, unmemorable music that had no real appeal or influence outside of Britain. However, The Beatles, the Stones, the Who, the Animals, the Yardbirds, and others loved American R&B, which is why the music they inevitably created was far more popular and influential.
I don't know what ever gave you that idea. Stiff upper lip and fair play and all that is just typically shallow American stereotyping. It's bollocks. We'd have stolen the entire world given half the chance, but America beat us to it.
