Rock’n’Roll Unravelled Show
Rock’n’Roll to Rock
podcast
This Rock’n’Roll to Rock podcast is the original radio show and includes all the music played in the show.
First broadcast on Access North West 6 July 2020.
PLAYLIST – Rock’n’Roll to Rock
1 Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers – Sock it To ‘Em JB
2 Frankie Avalon – Venus
3 The Miracles – You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me
4 Phil Ochs – One More Parade
5 James Ray – If You Gotta Make a fool of Somebody
6 The Creation – Making Time
7 The Velvet Underground – I’m Waiting for the Man
Rock’n’Roll To Rock Podcast
The golden age of rock’n’roll faded away after Buddy Holly died in a plane crash on 3 February 1959.
For the only time in rock’n’roll history, the music scenes were completely different in America and Britain. Consequently, for the next five years the Brits and Americans went their separate ways. The music scenes on both sides of the Atlantic came together once again with the advent of rock music, in the mid-1960s.
In the UK rock’n’roll/skiffle groups morphed into beat groups. These were mostly guitar, bass and drums combos. The focus was no longer solely on the singer. By 1966, the music took on a much harder edge with bands like Cream and rock music was born.
In America the music scene fragmented after rock’n’roll faded away in the late 1950s. A whole raft of new music genres sprang up. Indeed, a veritable mosaic of: surf music, Phil Spector’s wall of sound, new dance crazes, soul music from Motown and Stax, as well as the new protest singers like Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs who emerged from the 1940s/’50s folk revival scene.
Rock music emerged independently on both sides of the Atlantic. By the middle of the decade a new generation of bands came to the fore. Cream, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Velvet Underground and a host of others brought a new excitement to rock’n’roll. Rock music arrived..
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Rock’n’Roll Unravelled – THE BOOK
Derek Shelmerdine, author of Rock’n’Roll Unravelled.
In its unique three-part format
Timeline + What Happened Today? + Pocket Histories
Rock’n’Roll Unravelled tells the story of rock’n’roll from its roots to mid-1970s punk.
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.
Record Collector magazine review
“Shelmerdine has made a painstaking effort to document pretty much every event that would prove significant in shaping popular music … a comprehensive guide… invaluable.”
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This podcast is the original broadcast of the radio show
…..From Rock’n’Roll to Rock
……….on Access North West 6 July 2020
