Before They Found Fame
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The Rock’n’Roll Unravelled Show, with a look at what Eric Clapton, David Bowie, Marc Bolan and Rod Stewart were up to – in the Before They Found Fame radio show.
Originally broadcast 3 June
on Access North West
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Before They Found Fame
What Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Marc Bolan and David Bowie were up to – before they were famous…
ERIC CLAPTON: started out in the Roosters, before playing a handful of gigs with Casey Jones and the Engineers. His next step was with the Yardbirds but parted company with them for the more blues focused John Mayall’s Blues Breakers. International fame came with Cream…
DAVID BOWIE: slogged away throughout the 1960s without finding any commercial success. He scored his first hit single with Space Oddity in 1969 but he was very nearly a one-hit wonder. He found sustained fame after his next hit single Starman – in 1972…
MARC BOLAN: started out in a school band, Susie and the Hoola Hoops, with Helen Shapiro. He performed as Toby Tyler and had a brief stint with John’s Children. Cult fame came with the psychedelic-folk duo Tyrannosaurus Rex. In the early 1970s he found international fame as a glam-rock pioneer with T.Rex…
ROD STEWART: was in a succession of bands throughout the 1960s, including Jimmy Powell and the Five Dimensions, Long John Baldry and the Hoochie Coochie Men, Steampacket and the Jeff Beck Group. In 1969 he joined Faces and progressively eclipsed the rest of the group to become in international star…
PLAYLIST
Before They Found Fame radio show
Eric Clapton – Telephone Blues
Rod Stewart – Shake
Marc Bolan – The Wizzard
Davy Jones – You’ve Got a Habit of Leaving
ROCK’N’ROLL UNRAVELLED SHOW
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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Not just the story of the music but also the social events which shaped it. The Vietnam War, Civil Rights struggle and so many other factors because they had such an influence on the music of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s.
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Before They Found Fame was first broadcast
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Before They Found Fame radio show
A look at what Eric Clapton, David Bowie, Marc Bolan and Rod Stewart were up to – before they were famous.
