Rock’n’Roll Unravelled Show
From Rock’n’Roll to Rock – radio show

First broadcast
…6 July 2020
on Access North West

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From Rock’n’Roll to Rock – Radio Show

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.

PLAYLIST
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 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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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.

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