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by Peter Doggett


  52. ‘The Opposition’: DM, 13 September 1956.

  53. ‘Why is it that a rhythm-crazed’: NME, 14 September 1956.

  54. ‘The British public doesn’t want’: NME, 17 November 1956.

  55. ‘Rock ’n’ roll is a revival’: DM, 8 October 1956.

  56. ‘That rhythm is terrific’: DE, 12 September 1956.

  57. ‘This music is different’: ibid.

  58. ‘the most destructive force’: DB, 6 April 1955.

  59. ‘a high pressure crusade’: DB, 20 April 1955.

  60. ‘Teen-agers virtually work’: Cash Box, April 1955.

  61. ‘symptomatic of something’: BB, 28 April 1956.

  62. ‘a communicable disease’: Cash Box, April 1956.

  63. ‘to undermine the morals’: DB, 2 May 1956.

  64. ‘There’s even a rock and roll’: Cash Box, February 1956.

  65. ‘the real, full-time R&B’: BB, 16 June 1956.

  66. ‘Suddenly [in 1954]’: DB, 26 January 1955.

  67. ‘The continued merging’: Billboard, March 1956.

  Chapter 12: Bad Motorcycle

  1. ‘Take a dash of Johnnie’: DM, 1 March 1956.

  2. ‘If what I play is Rock’: NME, 11 January 1957.

  3. ‘The odd thing about it’: Memphis Press-Scimitar, 28 July 1954.

  4. ‘His style is both country’: BB, 6 November 1954.

  5. ‘I’d say it was a mixed-up’: White, Bo Diddley, p. 59.

  6. ‘Man, maybe that was’: quoted in Jazz Journal, January 1956.

  7. ‘How can I reject it’: Cash Box, March 1956.

  8. ‘His antics and appearance’: NME, 18 January 1957.

  9. ‘Her enthusiasm was so keen’: DE, 15 February 1957.

  10. ‘has stood well aloof’: DE, 4 December 1956.

  11. ‘with cowboy boots’: The Forty-Fiver, May 1956.

  12. ‘a young bump and grind’: unidentified Minneapolis paper, 13 May 1956.

  13. ‘If the future is important’: BB, 16 June 1956.

  14. ‘If he did that in the street’: Time, 14 May 1956.

  15. ‘I think that there is some’: NME, 5 October 1956.

  16. ‘sounds as if his mouth’: DM, 5 July 1956.

  17. ‘a vulgar, unmelodic’: DB, 28 November 1956.

  18. ‘bobby soxers and baby sitters’: Fong-Torres, Hits Just Keep On Coming, pp. 24–5.

  19. ‘at the mercy of the taste’: Poschardt, DJ Culture, p. 55.

  20. ‘I don’t like [Presley’s] work’: quoted in Ellis, Big Beat Scene, p. 46.

  21. ‘It is deplorable’: DM, 5 September 1956.

  22. ‘We certainly do our best’: DE, 17 May 1960.

  23. ‘It just sounded so raw’: RS, 19 April 1990.

  24. ‘a light sports jacket’: NME, 28 December 1956.

  25. ‘You don’t have to do all that’: DE, 5 January 1957.

  26. ‘His boyish freshness’: NME, 11 January 1957.

  27. ‘the day when Bill’: DM, 30 January 1957.

  28. ‘Fantabulous’: DM, 6 February 1957.

  29. ‘faces turned upwards’: DE, 6 February 1957.

  30. ‘They clowned, they fooled’: DM, 7 February 1957.

  31. ‘weak wisecracks’: DE, 7 February 1957.

  32. ‘would like to do a two-hour’: DM, 16 February 1957.

  33. ‘Bill looks and sounds exactly’: NME, 8 February 1957.

  34. ‘He’s Great, Great, Great!’: quoted in Steele, Bermondsey Boy, p. 244.

  35. ‘Does Tommy Steele expect’: NME, 9 November 1956.

  36. ‘How any sane person’: Radio Times, 4 January 1957.

  37. ‘I feel thoroughly disgusted’: Radio Times, 22 March 1957.

  38. ‘a sex symbol of deformed’: quoted in Ellis, Big Beat Scene, p. 102.

  39. ‘Larry fucks our arses’: quoted in ibid., p. 27.

  40. ‘We all do it’: DM, 12 June 1959.

  41. ‘Artificiality is death’: Record Mail, August 1958.

  42. ‘the new star looked more’: Leslie, Fab, pp. 89–90.

  43. ‘Rock’n’roll has to be sung’: DE, 4 December 1958.

  44. ‘older people like it too’: DM, 6 April 1959.

  45. ‘a rather fatal fascination’: Krivine, Juke-Box Saturday Night, p. 137.

  46. ‘Is Cliff Richard’: DM, 30 November 1959.

  47. ‘Fans ripped out’: MM, 25 November 1961.

  48. ‘The idea of English people’: Jazz Monthly, December 1955.

  49. ‘Rock ’n’ roll is out of date’: DM, 8 September 1956.

  50. ‘is the Chicago Rent Party’: DM, 9 November 1949.

  51. ‘a triple murderer’: Hamilton, In Search of the Blues, p. 121.

  52. ‘Isn’t it time to call a halt’: NME, January 1955; quoted in Frame, Restless Generation, p. 78.

  53. ‘Lonnie Donegan still sounds’: G, March 1955.

  54. ‘skiffle music has now become’: Jazz Journal, November 1955.

  55. ‘without benefit of plugging’: Leslie, pp. 57–8.

  56. ‘sounds like a number’: Jazz Journal, April 1956.

  57. ‘At worst, [skiffle] becomes’: quoted in Jazz Music 7:6; November 1956.

  58. ‘Britain’s future Billie Holiday’: Jazz Monthly, September 1957.

  59. ‘your outdoor skiffle party’: Woman, 8 August 1957.

  60. ‘I am teaching them rock’: Record Mail, June 1958.

  61. ‘After 1955, the amateurs’: Wilder, American Popular Song, p. xvi.

  62. ‘a decade of simple-minded’: Time, 24 December 1956.

  63. ‘If you gave the public’: Jazz Journal, January 1959.

  64. ‘If popular music is truly’: American Record Guide, April 1959.

  65. ‘If you want to live for’: Cash Box, October 1957.

  66. ‘prepare for the end of the world’: ibid.

  67. ‘the world was burning up’: Cash Box, January 1958.

  68. ‘rock ’n’ roll glorifies Satan’: Daily Mail, 14 January 1958.

  69. ‘She’ll be 14 in July’: DM, 29 May 1958.

  70. ‘Sorry we couldn’t get Jerry’: DE, 2 June 1958.

  71. ‘an emotional crisis’: DM, 26 January 1959.

  72. ‘Boys out for an evening’: DM, 5 February 1959.

  73. ‘got rid of’: DM, 12 December 1957.

  74. ‘records of a criminally hooligan trend’: Ryback, Rock around the Bloc, p. 32.

  75. ‘a mixed-up rumba’: Time, 20 April 1959.

  76. ‘Dancers bending at the knee’: Ryback, Rock around the Bloc, p. 29.

  77. ‘Experts say the latest craze’: DE, 6 February 1957.

  78. ‘all of a sudden the business’: NME, 25 January 1957.

  79. ‘Calypsomania’: DM, 21 March 1957.

  80. ‘Here we go again’: DB, 2 May 1957.

  81. ‘Calypso is going to become’: The Forty-Fiver, March 1957.

  82. ‘Elvis was interpreting’: Belafonte, My Song, p. 151.

  83. ‘The first mock-ups I saw’: ibid., p. 158.

  84. ‘the greatest musical sensation’: DE, 14 March 1957.

  85. ‘All they played was them Bobbys’: Lewis, Killer!, p. 69.

  86. ‘the tuneless terror’: Time. 27 July 1959.

  87. ‘Bobby was a person’: Evanier, Roman Candle, p. 56.

  88. ‘Nearly everything I do’: Life, 11 January 1960.

  89. ‘Do you realize you’re alone’: ibid.

  Chapter 13: Soul Food

  1. ‘It is recognized as one’: G, October 1932.

  2. ‘90% of the popular stars’: DB, 27 January 1954.

  3. ‘The same match that burns’: Ebony, September 1960.

  4. ‘There is in the music’: Ebony, December 1961.

  5. ‘has soul’: G, December 1928.

  6. ‘I try to bring out my soul’: DB, 14 December 1955.

  7. ‘I became myself’: Charles, Brother Ray, p. 148.

  8. ‘almost blasphemous’: Jazz Monthly, December 1955.

  9.
‘a masterpiece of gospel’: Broughton, Black Gospel, p. 50.

  10. ‘She lost the black market’: ibid., p. 54

  11. ‘I sing with all the feeling’: Ebony, September 1960.

  12. ‘Some of these record companies’: Jazz Journal, May 1958.

  13. ‘I turn on the radio’: Ebony, December 1961.

  14. ‘The real Negro folk idiom’: ibid.

  15. ‘heart music’: Ebony, November 1962.

  16. ‘By isolating what they believe’: Negro Digest, April 1963.

  17. ‘I was hurt, really hurt’: Ebony, July 1979.

  18. ‘the entire crew breaking’: Cash Box, May 1952.

  19. ‘He’s just singing the same damn’: quoted in Whitall, Fever, p. 76.

  20. ‘The entire R&B market’: DB, 4 May 1955.

  21. ‘The groups are all getting’: Cash Box, June 1958.

  22. ‘Teenagers used to go’: Jet, 13 August 1953.

  23. ‘this ugly record’: Jazz Journal, July 1956.

  24. ‘I didn’t want to hurt him’: MM, 18 February 1961.

  25. ‘Us rhythm and blues’: Charles, Brother Ray, p. 152

  26. ‘After all, the Grand Ole Opry’: ibid., p. 222.

  27. ‘I wasn’t aware of any bold act’: ibid., p. 223.

  28. ‘Just pretend you’re wiping’: quoted in Dawson, The Twist, p. 34.

  29. ‘The World’s Wackiest Dance’: DM, 27 October 1961.

  30. ‘become a sort of national’: DE, 30 November 1961.

  31. ‘sweep big bands back’: MM, 30 December 1961.

  32. ‘It is expected that in the skiing’: MM, 6 January 1962.

  33. ‘synthetic sex turned’: Ebony, February 1962.

  34. ‘How can we feel happy’: Ryback, Rock around the Bloc, p. 52.

  35. ‘Record companies create scores’: Hi Fi/Stereo Review, August 1962.

  36. ‘As it stands today’: BB, 5 January 1963.

  37. ‘It was recorded R&B’: ibid.

  Chapter 14: Music for Moderns

  1. ‘Bad rock and roll is through’: Cash Box, June 1958.

  2. ‘Most of our best numbers’: quoted in Kaplan, Frank, p. 706.

  3. ‘the brutalities of war’: Time, 13 November 1964.

  4. ‘It looks as if the minds’: G, June 1962.

  5. ‘Shadow choruses were so common’: Lanza, Elevator Music, p. 113.

  6. ‘They devised a series’: Murrells, Book of Golden Discs, p. 124.

  7. ‘brain workers find that it’: quoted in Lanza, Elevator Music, p. 47.

  8. ‘squeeze down the dynamic range’: Time, 30 August 1963.

  9. ‘The light shines in the eyes’: Records Magazine, August 1959.

  10. ‘Each manufacturer has invented’: American Record Guide, September 1962.

  11. ‘new scoring concepts’: American Record Guide, September 1961.

  12. ‘The more spacious the music’: DE, 4 December 1958.

  13. ‘music to test your speakers’: American Record Guide, December 1960.

  14. ‘It is obvious that the audio engineer’: American Record Guide, January 1962.

  15. ‘The music is being made’: ibid.

  16. ‘Dedicated audio fans’: Time, 28 February 1955.

  17. ‘compulsive personality’: Time, 14 January 1957.

  18. ‘a symbolic harem’: ibid.

  19. ‘In most instances when a lady’: Gramophone, August 1925.

  20. ‘the first band whose existence’: High-Fidelity, June 1954.

  21. ‘We sound awful’: ibid.

  22. ‘special rheostat control panel’: DB, 15 July 1953.

  23. ‘a kind of musically manic state’: Metronome, January 1947.

  24. ‘If playing flat simultaneously’: DB, 14 January 1949.

  25. ‘mathematic computations’: Jazz Journal, November 1954.

  26. ‘During a long intermission’: Jazz Journal, August 1954.

  27. ‘There’s always an uncomfortable’: DB, 14 July 1954.

  28. ‘If this is what jazz’: Jazz Journal, August 1962.

  29. ‘I saw such men as Miles Davis’: MM, 10 November 1956.

  30. ‘the complete freedom of expression’: MM, 15 September 1962.

  31. ‘It would seem that jazz’: American Record Guide, November 1958.

  32. ‘As far as the record business’: BB, 27 October 1962.

  33. ‘The whole thing is pretty much a bore’: American Record Guide, March 1963.

  34. ‘sloppy and non-professional’: BB, 1 December 1962.

  35. ‘Carmen Miranda was first’: quoted in Perrone, Brazilian Popular Music, p. 39.

  36. ‘a common obsession united’: Castro, Bossa Nova, p. 147.

  37. ‘would sound good reading’: McGowan, The Brazilian Sound, p. 63.

  Chapter 15: Revolution in Reverse

  1. ‘The Beatle People care’: Honey, June 1963.

  2. ‘When we play at the Cavern’: ibid.

  3. ‘taking on the character’: BB, 27 October 1962.

  4. ‘wound up in a riot’: BB, 12 October 1963.

  5. ‘a thumping teenage idol’: BB, 28 September 1963.

  6. ‘If we’ve just succeeded’: BB, 7 December 1963.

  7. ‘a Very Lively Corpse’: BB, 16 March 1963.

  8. ‘From Liverpool?’: BB, 29 June 1963.

  9. ‘Beatlemania seems to have taken’: BB, 28 December 1963.

  10. ‘the publicity ruckus’: ibid.

  11. ‘starlet Gail Stevens’: BB, 4 January 1964.

  12. ‘Great Britain hasn’t been so influential’: BB, 15 February 1964.

  13. ‘would never last’: NME, 27 March 1964.

  14. ‘left no lasting impress’: American Record Guide, April 1964.

  15. ‘These boys, however good’: MM, 29 February 1964.

  16. ‘the biggest thing to have hit’: Mersey Beat, 31 August–14 September 1961.

  17. ‘Out goes the Rock’: MM, 7 January 1961.

  18. ‘Uniforms – Has Trad Gone Mad?’: MM, 26 August 1961.

  19. ‘obsessed with the concept’: Godbolt, All That and 10%, p. 74.

  20. ‘the first ever example’: ibid., p. 84.

  21. ‘Trad fans are usually’: DM, 2 March 1963.

  22. ‘The worst thing that happened’: MM, 1 August 1964.

  23. ‘since Today is so bloody awful’: Leslie, Fab, p. 117.

  24. ‘The music which is currently’: MM, 17 November 1962.

  25. ‘All the loud, death-dealing’: R’NB Scene, September 1964.

  26. ‘It’s very dangerous’: MM, 22 September 1962

  27. ‘fervent fans’: MM, 17 November 1962.

  28. ‘I’m a purist’: MM, 5 January 1963.

  29. ‘One of the established’: MM, 8 June 1963.

  30. ‘very very ordinary’: MM, 15 June 1963.

  31. ‘in its fervour was like’: DM, 13 June 1963.

  32. ‘five young men who see themselves’: MM, 29 June 1963.

  33. ‘At first the music repelled me’: Clapton, Autobiography, p. 40.

  34. ‘He seemed constantly trapped’: Frank Driggs’ liner notes for Columbia CL 1654.

  35. ‘one man and his guitar’: quoted in Schwartz, How Britain Got the Blues, p. 74.

  36. ‘All over London clubs’: Jazzbeat, February 1964.

  37. ‘I was very pompous’: quoted in Schwartz, How Britain Got the Blues, p. 142.

  38. ‘tempering enthusiasm with a degree’: R’NB Scene, June 1964.

  39. ‘bad guitar playing’: MM, 14 November 1964.

  40. ‘Can anyone explain why’: MM, 23 February 1963.

  41. ‘Donald Zec’s [article]’: DM, 14 September 1963.

  42. ‘young men who live’: Town, September 1962.

  43. ‘the well-scrubbed youths’: Jazz Monthly, June 1964.

  44. ‘Youngsters beat up seaside town’: DE, 30 March 1964.

  45. ‘The War of the Rockers and Mods’: DM, 18 September 1963.

  46. ‘Purple hearts and beat music�
��: MM, 11 April 1964.

  47. ‘Every time something like this’: ibid.

  48. ‘The typical Rocker’: Cohen, Folk Devils, p. 35.

  49. ‘Music was much more important’: ibid., p. 186.

  50. ‘Rockers buy more records’: Rave, May 1964.

  51. ‘Ah, yes, Blue Beat’: Boyfriend 65 Book (London, Boyfriend magazine, 1964).

  52. ‘We think the Mod thing is dying’: MM, 5 June 1965.

  53. ‘an army, a powerful aggressive’: RS, 14 September 1968.

  54. ‘We made the establishment’: Cream, October 1971.

  55. ‘kids would reach the age of 22’: ibid.

  56. ‘Q: I am 15 and madly in love’: Honey, March 1963.

  57. ‘I’ve never seen a mob’: DM, 25 January 1947.

  58. ‘The other day I turned on’: Kaplan, Frank, p. 179.

  59. ‘I keep wondering if it’s really me’: Washington Star, 29 October 1956.

  60. ‘They made it clear’: MM, 16 March 1963.

  61. ‘[P.J. Proby] seems to exploit sex’: quoted in NME, 2 March 1974.

  62. ‘You come out of a council flat’: RS, 15 March 1973.

  63. ‘Peter and Marty’: Music Week, 20 January 1973.

  64. ‘Don’t you think, in this day’: NME, 2 November 1974.

  65. ‘After a while I realized’: NME, 21 February 1976.

  66. ‘You get some really wild old women’: Q, January 1988.

  67. ‘We came to see the Beatles’: Mersey Beat, 5–19 December 1963.

  68. ‘The raucous sound’: quoted in NME, 10 January 1964.

  69. ‘painfully clear that the Beatles’: Leslie, tab, p. 149.

  70. ‘Since Beatlemania became’: Laurie, The Teenage Revolution, p. 102.

  71. ‘the least fortunate of their generation’: Leslie, Fab, p. 171.

  72. ‘What a bottomless chasm’: ibid., p. 163.

  73. ‘We seem to rouse some sort’: Rave, April 1964.

  74. ‘an indication of the adult failure’: Hechinger, Teen-Age Tyranny, p. 112.

  75. ‘creeping adult adolescence’: ibid., p. 116.

  76. ‘I feel I’ve been betrayed’: Teen Magazine, October 1964.

  77. ‘Now only the socially inept’: Laurie, The Teenage Revolution,p. 84.

  78. ‘If the Rolling Stones need’: ibid.

  79. ‘You are Mr Wonderful’: Rave, December 1964

  80. ‘Everybody concerned has got’: MM, 31 August 1963.

  81. ‘On one point, the record makers’: DM, 25 September 1963.

 

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