1971 50th Anniversaries
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The Rock’n’Roll Unravelled Show, with a look back at some rock’n’roll landmarks celebrating their 50th Anniversaries, in the 1971 50th Anniversaries radio show.

First broadcast
…..4 January 2021
on Access North West

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1971 50th Anniversaries

In this Rock’n’Roll Unravelled Show, we’re taking at some of the rock’n’roll landmarks celebrating their 50th Anniversaries.

Half a century has passed since John Lennon released Imagine and Happy Xmas (War is Over) and the Rolling Stones released Brown Sugar and Sticky Fingers.

Rolling Stone magazine perpetrated one of the greatest hoaxes in rock’n’roll history. In 1969 it published an album review for the latest supergroup, The Masked Marauders. Supposedly Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison had come together and released an album. On 15 April 1971 Rolling Stone finally brought the hoax to an end but not before the album sold over 65,000 copies!

Two of the legendary “lost” albums are associated with 1971.
Work on the Who’s follow-up to Tommy began in early 1971 but in late spring Pete Townshend abandoned his epic project. Lifehouse was never completed but some of the songs destined for it were salvaged on the Who’s next album.
Brian Wilson’s epic follow-up to Pet Sounds was intended to be Smile but it was abandoned in 1967. Surf’s Up was destined for inclusion on Smile and found a 1971 release as the title track of the album Surf’s Up.

1971 was a blue-chip year for Elvis Presley. He had eight UK hit albums, four of which made the Top-10.

Plus highlights for Frank Zappa, Deep Purple and many others…

PLAYLIST
1971 50th Anniversaries radio show

1 John Lennon – Imagine
2 Frank Zappa – Peaches En Regalia
3 The Who – Pure and Easy
4 The Rolling Stones – Sway
5 The Beach Boys – Surf’s Up
6 Emerson Lake & Palmer – The Curse of Baba Yaga
7 The Masked Marauders – Duke of Earl
8 Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On

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How rock’n’roll came about, it’s transition into rock music in the mid-1960s and the array of rock genres which followed in the late 1960s and ‘70s.

Blues, R&B, rock’n’roll, rock, prog, folk rock, country rock, psychedelia, glam, early metal, punk, new wave +++… will all find their way into the shows. Plus artists and bands, some well known and others who are more on the cult side. Stories behind classic singles and albums, record labels, venues, gigs… Not forgetting the people behind the scenes: producers, managers, promoters, writers, Svengalis – the people who made it all happen.

If it’s relevant to the music of the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s, I’ll be talking about it.
All this and great music, although, some you’ll recognise and some you might well be hearing for the first time.

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1971 50th Anniversaries radio show

First broadcast on Access North West 4 January 2021

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